Barack Obama wants to capture an asteroid

Barak Obama presented the 2014 budget on Wednesday, which includes $ 105 millionfor the NASA investigate the feasibility of developing a robotic spacecraft that willcapture an asteroid mission. Florida Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson , who is also chairman of the Subcommittee onScience and Space of the Senate , told reporters that the project will be divided into two stages , the final part will be developed from 2017. That asteroid would then dragged to the moon for a group of astronauts begin to study, which was expected around 2021. Nelson also explained that investigate the composition of celestial object  and develop a  technology to divert, if they are a threat to Earth .  NASA should study in the coming months if the project is viable. The president marked as next targets for space exploration one asteroid by 2025 and to Mars in 2030. The fall of the meteorite on Chelyabinsk, Russia , on February 15 last, which damaged buildings and injured more than 1,000 people, renewed interest in space exploration and the development of technology to avoid a collision.