WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, AFTER ALL: Will NASA Announce Plans to Snag an Asteroid and Fly It to Earth? “This idea comes from an article published March 28 in Aviation Week and Space Technology, which reports on the space industry. The plan would identify a small asteroid, grab it with a robotic spacecraft, and tug it to the vicinity of our planet, perhaps somewhere near the moon. Such a mission was the subject of a two-day meeting of scientists and engineers at Caltech organized by the Keck Institute for Space Studies in 2011.”