Paul A. Abell

TL;DR: This particular study examined the feasibility of sending NASA's new Orion spacecraft (also referred to as the crew exploration vehicle, or CEV) to a near-Earth objects (NEO) to mark humanity's first foray beyond the Earth–Moon system.

TL;DR: The importance of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) in the context of the Global Exploration Roadmap and NASA's strategy for sustainable human exploration is discussed in this paper, including development of mission concept options, key trade studies, and analysis of drivers for both the robotic and crewed mission segments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a viewgraph presentation examines flight hardware elements of the Constellation Program (CxP) and the utilization of the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV), Evolvable Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs) and Ares launch vehicles for NEO missions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) to record spectral data in the 0.6 to 2.5 micron regime on eight catalogued space objects.

TL;DR: Hayabusa2 is the Japanese Asteroid Return Mission and targeted the carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The goal of this mission was to conduct proximity operations including remote sensing observations, material sampling, and a Small Carry-On Impact experiment, as well as sample analyses as mentioned in this paper.