Big Picture Science – As the Worlds Turn: Paul Abell

by Gary Niederhoff on October 16, 2012

Part 3 of As the Worlds Turn, featuring Paul Abell, planetary geologist, NASA’s Johnson Space Center, on the prospect of manned missions to asteroids.
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