Find asteroids to get to Mars

Nature

Volumn 514, Issue 7524, 2014, Pages 559-561

  Binzel, Richard P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; BUDGET; COSMONAUT; COST; MICROGRAVITY; MOON; NOTE; ROBOTICS; SCIENTIST; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; SUN; UNITED STATES; ECONOMICS; GOVERNMENT; MOTIVATION; TRENDS;

ASTRONAUTS; GOALS; MARS; MINOR PLANETS; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84908403155     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/514559a     Document Type: Note

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