How NASA Would Wrangle An Asteroid [Video]

The agency released an Armageddon-style video to explain New telescope technology is helping scientists better detect asteroids, but what happens after we find them? One of NASA's goals has been to latch astronauts onto space rocks and take samples for studying, and the agency has just released a rough video-sketch of a plan for how they'd do it. Using the Orion spacecraft, a team could launch from Earth, pick up speed by whipping around the moon, and attach to an asteroid in about nine days. Af...