NASA'S ARM HAS OTHER PLANS
While this highly-anticipated mission's main goal is to redirect asteroids, NASA has other uses for the technology in mind. If proven successful, ARM will demonstrate the much-need technologies that we would need for the hopeful placement of humans on Mars. For this, NASA has a phased approach strategy to all their in-space objectives. ARM is certainly no exception. The first phase begins with identifying asteroids. from there, the redirect mission takes up phase two. Phase three and beyond has a crewed mission redirecting asteroids and using the technology to get to Mars. …show more content…
Then, ARM will have one of four asteroids it will redirect: Itokawa, Bennu, 2008 EV5 and 1999 JU3. In the past, Itokawa was visited by a space probe in 2004, but it's 2008 EV5 that NASA wants to beat first. 2008 EV5 has a spin period of 3.725 hours and a total size of 420 x 410 x 390 m. By identifying these targets, the agency then hope to move on to their next phase by redirecting them
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