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May 22, 2013

Desert Tests Pave Way for Human Exploration of Small Bodies
Mojave CA (SPX) May 22, 2013
A team of researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics has successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From 13 to 15 April 2013, field experiments were conducted at the U.S. Army's National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California, to evaluate geotechnic ... read more

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