Speculative Fact #251: Asteroid Fishing

By now you have probably heard the saying about Muhammad having to go to the mountain, because the mountain wouldn’t go to him. But what if we could move mountains?
            NASA has an ambitious plan to study asteroids by crunching off a piece, sailing it closer to Earth (in orbit around the Moon), where we can analyze the piece at our leisure.
            If the strategy works it might be repeated in the future. Instead of traveling to the main belt to mine asteroids, future space pioneers might be able to reap in a slightly smaller till with a much shorter and safer trip.

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