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At a workshop last month in Washington, D.C., NASA canvassed the scientific, human spaceflight and planetary defense communities about their priorities for a mission to a near-Earth asteroid.

an asteroid mission is possible as early as 2019 using a pair of enhanced Orion spacecraft with a two-person crew.

November 2019 and spend three months flying more than 7 million miles to an asteroid that's about 33 feet across.