Target NEO 2 Workshop, July 2013

On July 9, 2013, Ball Aerospace sponsored the Target NEO 2 workshop.   It was a follow-on to the 2011 Target NEO workshop that discussed the technical aspects of achieving President Obama’s 2010 goal of sending astronauts to an asteroid by 2025.  The 2013 workshop discussed the technical challenges of the latest iteration of that goal — NASA’s Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) to send a robotic probe to capture an asteroid, redirect it to lunar orbit, and send astronauts there to study it and possibly return a sample to Earth.  SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the Target NEO 2 workshop by correspondent Gabriele Martinez-Betancourt on July 13, 2013.