Paging Captain Ahab: NASA Developing Space Harpoon | Talking Points Memo

TINA CASEY

NASA scientists are working on a new spacecraft that can chase after comets, dodge chunks of debris while locking into a stable position as they rotate, and fire off a retrievable harpoon that returns to the craft with soil samples, which eventually make their way back to a laboratory on Earth.


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