The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos will not be ferrying any more U.S. Astronauts to ISS when the current agreement between that agency and NASA expires in 2018.
In a white paper submitted to the journal Icarus, the former chief of technology for Microsoft who later founded a patent-monetization company Nathan Myhrvold says that data collected by NASA's NEOWISE telescope do not provide reliable size estimates of asteroids which may pose a threat to Earth.
Asteroid Sample Return Spacecraft Progressing Toward A September Launch
NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, took an across-country journey of about 1,600 miles before it launches on its 509 million mile journey to the asteroid Bennu. On May 20, Lockheed Martin delivered the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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