NASA Wants to Give Our Moon a Moon

[thesummerqueen]

http://gizmodo.com/5972742/nasa-wants-to...oon-a-moon

NASA must think our moon is getting lonely, because it's mulling the idea of capturing an asteroid and placing it in lunar orbit, so it has a rocky satellite all of its own.
According to New Scientist, researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies in California have "confirmed that NASA is mulling over" a plan to give it a buddy. The plan would involve launching a robotic spacecraft to grab an asteroid, before placing it in high lunar orbit. The mission would apparently cost around $2.6 billion, and could be wrapped up by the 2020s.

You do realize this puts up only a couple breeding experiments away from