Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whiriwhiria e NASA te miihana nui hei toro atu ki tētahi whetū me te tango i tētahi toka mai i tōna mata hei waihanga i tētahi turanga hurihuri mō ngā kaipūkaha ā-ao. He kaipuke robot. ka haea he toka nui i te aorangi, ka hurihia. te marama, ka waiho hei waahi hei whakarite mo nga misioni tangata a muri ake nei ki Mars, kua whakaatuhia e te tari mokowhiti o te US. E kiia ana ko te Asteroid Redirect Mission e tata ana ki te $ 1.25 piriona kaore i te whakauru i nga utu whakarewatanga me te whaainga. mo te tangohanga i te marama o Tihema 2020. E rima tau i muri mai ka whai ake i te haerenga tangata ki te toka mokowhiti, he whakarerekētanga o te mahere i whakaarohia e te Perehitini Barack Obama i te tau 2010. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. E whakamahere ana a NASA ki te tiki i tētahi toka mai i tētahi aorangi nui (e whakaaturia ana) mā te whakamahi i tētahi kaipuke robotic. Kātahi ka kawea ki te aorangi o te marama, hei ako mā ngā kaipūkaha ā-ao. I whakaaro hoki a NASA ki te kawe i tētahi aorangi iti ake, ā, ka neke i te tinana katoa ki tētahi aorangi tiketike huri noa i te marama. I muri i ngā rangahau whānui, ka kōwhiri a NASA ki te kohikohi me te neke i tētahi. toka, he miihana ka nui ake te utu e pā ana ki te $100 miriona, engari. e pai ake ana te whakarite i te tari mō te whāinga whakamutunga o. te taunga o ngā kaiarataki i runga i Mars. 'Ko te momo mea ēnei e mōhio ana tātou ka hiahiatia e tātou ina haere tātou ki tētahi atu tinana o te ao,' NASA Associate. I kī te Kaiwhakahaere a Robert Lightfoot ki ngā kaipāho i runga i tētahi waea hui. E whakamahere ana a NASA ki te ako i te aorangi mō te kotahi tau me te whakamātautau i ngā tikanga whakaheke e hiahiatia ana hei whakaora i tētahi rā. Ko te whenua mai i te tūtukitanga kino pea. I tū tētahi aorangi, i tētahi kōmita rānei ki te aorangi, tata ki te 65 miriona tau ki muri, nā reira i puta ai ngā huringa āhuarangi i whakamate ai i ngā rauropi me te nuinga atu o ngā mea ora i runga i te Ao i taua wā. I tēnei wā, e toru ngā aorangi kaitono a NASA, engari kāore e tūmanakohia kia whakatauhia te wāhi hei rere i mua i te tau 2019. Ko te misioni ko te rere i tētahi waka ā-rōpū, e whakahaeretia ana e te pūkaha hiko o te rā, ki tētahi aorangi mō tētahi tirohanga whānui. I te wa i tohua ai tētahi toka ūnga, ka rere te pūtirotiro ki raro ki te mata, ā, ka whakarewa i tētahi...
Ka tangohia e te waka ā-rōpō o NASA tētahi toka nui mai i tētahi aorangi. Ka toro atu ngā kaipāho ā-ao i runga i te waka ā-ao o Orion. Ka ako ngā kaipūkaha ā-ao i te aorangi me te kohikohi i ngā tauira. Ka whakamātau i ngā hangarau hou e hiahiatia ana mō tētahi miihana ki Mars.