[FPSPACE] House passes bill mandating a plan for asteroid warningand deflection

[Erkenswick, Tom M. (JSC-DM3)]

For those who are interested, the link (to the legislation) in the KurzweilAI.net article did not work for me.  The following seems to work:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:4:./temp/~c110TG2Qje:e56758:

Tom
 


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House passes bill mandating a plan for asteroid warning and deflection

KurzweilAI.net June 27, 2008

In recently passed H.R.6063, The
U.S. House of Representatives would
direct the NASA Administrator to
develop plans for a low-cost space
mission to rendezvous with the
Apophis asteroid and attach a
tracking device (subject to Senate
approval). The Apophis is expected
to pass at a distance from Earth
that is closer than geostationary
satellites...

http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=8952&m=25748


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