NASA is testing technologies for exploring asteroids

We explore even sending manned missions Updated: 26/08/2012 / / 23:59 The American Aeronautics and Space Administration launched this week a trial simulation in Houston to test technologies that will allow us in the future to explore asteroids. Equating this term of 10 days is part of the Research and Technology Studies (RATS) which takes place every year since 1998. Usually carried out in the wilderness, but this year held at Johnson Space Center, which has the necessary equipment. The NASA will test its new prototype vessel, the first of a new generation of space exploration vehicles, simulating a mission to the asteroid Itokawa. The test involves the approach to the asteroid, using a huge .The American Aeronautics and Space Administration launched this week a trial simulation in Houston to test technologies that will allow us in the future to explore asteroids.
Equating this term of 10 days is part of the Research and Technology Studies (RATS) which takes place every year since 1998. Usually carried out in the wilderness, but this year held at Johnson Space Center, which has the necessary equipment.
The NASA will test its new prototype vessel, the first of a new generation of space exploration vehicles, simulating a mission to the asteroid Itokawa. The test involves the approach to the asteroid, using a huge screen and data received by the Japanese Hayabusa mission from the asteroid. According to the program member, Trevor Graff, the asteroid "appears and moves just like the real."
The program still intends to explore the possibility of a manned mission to an asteroid and whether and how they could live astronauts onboard.
The probe was launched just three months after the unveiling of the observatory close to Earth that objects in our solar system there are over 4700 asteroid with a diameter of more than 100 meters who might threaten our planet, with only 20% to 30 % of them have been identified.