From the article: "Space exploration isn’t easy business. It takes years of research and development up until the moment of launch and even after you’ve landed on your desired interplanetary object, it’s only the beginning of a long line of things as the next step is to secure funding from a dysfunctional congress for the next stages of study. This is exactly what Draper Technology plans to change in association with NASA.."
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
