[i]'Jim Adams, NASA's deputy chief technologist also spoke, describing plans to capture an asteroid for study. "We first thought, 'We'll send an astronaut to an asteroid,' " he said. "Then we realized how hard that is. Just to catch up to one requires so much rocket propulsion, it's almost impossible. Once we find the right one, we'll use all the technology we've got. [b]We'll snag it, we'll bag it and we'll drag it into orbit around the moon.[/b] Then we can send humans to a target that enables us to practice deep space operations.'[/i]

Shouldn't we be focusing on more practical things NASA, like jetpacks?