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Fourth Industrial Revolution
These futuristic spacecrafts could nudge asteroids away from us
NASA has given the go-ahead for work to design a spacecraft that will test nudging an Earth-threatening asteroid out of its menacing orbit.
Geoffrey Brown is a Public Affairs Officer /Science Writer at John Hopkins University.