NASA plans to turn near earth asteroids orbiting in space into space stations. The idea is to capture these asteroids through a launched rocket from earth, then carry them to a gravitation neutral spot to keep them stationary.
A possible course of action:
Being closer to moon these can be used easily by space scientists based on moon in 2020s. Besides the purpose of launching Mars missions and so on these can also be used to mine water and break them into hydrogen and oxygen to be used as fuel in future space vehicles.
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