This would involve launching a spacecraft able to give the asteroid a nudge to change its orbit.
But Christine Yu said the manned spacecraft launch would be a big money-spinner for China.
"GROVER is just like a spacecraft but it has to operate on the ground, " Comberiate said.
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He says that while a lot of people were fearful of Russian spacecraft, he was excited.
But often, rocket and spacecraft malfunctions are much more complex to diagnose and resolve.
He funds aerospace company Blue Origin, which is developing spacecraft in West Texas.
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About nine minutes out, the capsule detached from the spacecraft that had shepherded it from Earth.
Active removal would see new spacecraft launched specifically to take other, redundant satellites out of orbit.
Of the thirty-nine spacecraft sent before Curiosity, less than forty per cent had reached the planet.
But with no traditional aviation launches or announcements scheduled, the main attraction will be a spacecraft.
Today, this quiet corner of England is developing propulsion systems for important spacecraft like Juno.
Planck will be the third spacecraft to investigate the CMB, after Nasa's COBE and WMAP satellites.
The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 10:31:45 p.m.
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All systems appeared to function normally and eight minutes later, the spacecraft had entered orbit.
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But he explained that a spacecraft's orbit lifetime could only be estimated to about 10% accuracy.
The WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo spacecraft will launch commercial spaceflights from the site by 2013.
The alternative method of a gravity tractor spares the spacecraft the need to land.
"This is a spacecraft but it feels like a caravan, " Paul told his fellow astronauts.
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This will be the first spacecraft of its kind since the Apollo command module.
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During Grail's three-month primary mission, the spacecraft orbited at an average altitude of 55km.
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Mars Express hopes to answer that question with two spacecraft that will work in tandem.
Voyager-1 was launched on 5 September 1977, and its sister spacecraft, Voyager-2, on 20 August 1977.
We're talking about a potential commander in chief, not the commander of some spacecraft.
Instead, the New Horizons spacecraft will target them with its cameras when it flies by.
Launched in 2011, the spacecraft spent nearly a year flying in formation, exclusively collecting gravitational data.
It has built a reusable spacecraft and flown it more than 100 times.
And if a spacecraft is visible in the sky, you'll be told where to find it.
It has information on shuttle and other spacecraft launches, tourist tips and space news.
Some UFO followers, or self-proclaimed Ufologists, believe the military is studying extraterrestrial spacecraft there.
It was designed to build spacecraft for a return manned spaceflight to the moon by 2020.
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