Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100418:12:15:00
Asteroid, which is essentially putting somebody on a rapidly speeding romp through space, right? is how would you even go about doing that? >> reporter: well, it's very easy. you know, the space station, for example, is speeding through space at 17,300 miles an hour. so when the space shuttle goes up there, it rendezvouses with it and it is flying in formation at the same speed so it's a simple thing to go over, put an astronaut on an asteroid because the asteroid they have in mind is 900 feet wide. it's a huge rock and it will come within 18,000 miles of earth in 2027. so it's a good idea to ...
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