This week I talk to Christopher Morrison from USNC about their recently awarded NIAC Grant. Their grant will investigate the feasibility of a radioisotope-electric propelled spacecraft that could intercept and retrieve a sample from a future interstellar asteroid or comet.

You can learn more about it here:

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2021_Phase_I/Extrasolar_Object_Interceptor_and_Sample_Return/



Episode 720: Interview: Christopher Morrison and the Interstellar Sample Return Mission

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Episode 720: Interview: Christopher Morrison and the Interstellar Sample Return Mission

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