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In NASA's Budget: Plans To 'Shrink-Wrap' An Asteroid : NPR »

There's $78 million of the agency's nearly $18 billion budget set aside for a program to capture a 500-ton asteroid in space and drag it back to orbit around the moon. And by 2021, astronauts could be visiting that asteroid to study it up close and gather samples. Source Main page (current trends)