Re: News - NASA studies sending crew to asteroid

Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Now if the asteroid's a piece of solid rock, this could work- you could
fire some sort of anchoring gear on the lander's footpads and lock it to
the asteroid.
But what if your target asteroid isn't all that solid, but more like a
pile of boulders and gravel held together by only weak gravitational
forces? What do you do then?

Superglue...

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