This concept animation opens with a rendering of the mission’s spacecraft trajectory, rendezvous, and approach to asteroid 2008 EV5. Although the mission’s target asteroid won’t officially be selected until a year before the robotic spacecraft is launched, 2008 EV5 is used as a reference for mission planning details. The animation concludes with the notional crew operations that will take place after the asteroid boulder is placed in lunar orbit.
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