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NASA Taps Elon Musk's SpaceX for 2021 Asteroid Intercept Mission

April 16, 2019July 27, 2019 Senior EditorAerospace, Asteroid Intercept Mission, Businesspeople, Elon Musk, Hawthorne, California, Hyperloop, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Spaceflight, SPACEX

A future NASA mission designed to intercept an asteroid and deflect it away from the Earth to avoid a potentially catastrophic impact will be contracted by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Source link