NASA to get $100 million in 2014’s US federal budget for capturing asteroids, as per the recommendations of Bill Nelson, chairman, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Science and Space.

The proposed plan of the space agency was to send an unmanned spacecraft to detect asteroid locations, disband it and then after destroying it to study the properties to know the composition.

The space mission will focus on Titan's largest lake and prepare analysis of its composition and possibility of any life.

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Virgin Galactic officials announced that they have signed a deal with NASA for the research flights on Virgin’s new space liner Spaceship-Two and the deal values $4.5 million.

NASA will do three spaceflights on the Virgin’s air launched space-liner, which is designed to carry eight people to orbital space.

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