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Conference to Examine NEO Risks and Opportunities

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Near-Earth Objects: Risks, Responses and Opportunities
- Legal Aspects
Space & Telecom Law
April 23-24, 2009
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Rusty Schweickart will help lead a two-day conference later this month on the subject of near Earth objects sponsored by the University of Nebraska College of Law. The college is hosting the conference in conjunction with the Association of Space Explorers with Co-Sponsorship of the Secure World Foundation and Supported by the American Branch of the International Law Association.

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NASA Finds Human Asteroid Missions Feasible

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on March 21, 2009, at 6:35 pm
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Discovery Space’s Dave Mosher has an interesting Q&A with Robert Landis, an engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, about prospects for a human mission to an asteroid. Landis led a feasibility study that explored the use of modified Constellation hardware to visit these giant orbiting mountains.

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