The "n" achronym.
You didn't mention the acronym: NEO.
Specifically, if NASA's plan to send the Orion
and Constellation spacecraft to the Moon
doesn't happen, or can't occur do to small budgets,
in the next 15 years, then NASA, urged on or
ordered by the White House, will do the next
best thing: a manned landing by a modifed
Orion on a NEO asteroid a few million miles away.
