14-04-2016 13:55 via uk.news.yahoo.com

NASA Could Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships

NASA is exploring whether passing asteroids could be turned into spaceships. The concept was devised by Jason Dunn, the co-founder of a firm that built a 3D printer on the International Space Station (ISS). Mr Dunn believes that a mechanism could be developed to rendezvous with asteroids and turn them into autonomous spacecraft.
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