LANDING ON COMET 26P/GRIGG-SKJELLERUP

First, we build and test the Skyhook. This component is the near term and practicable solution to bootstrap humanity to merge with the stars.

Second, we must travel to this icy comet 26P, survey it, and find a landing spot. Then deploy an army of spider-like ice-crawling robots.  They will set up and maintain the infrastructure for sublimating oxygen and other combustible gasses onto a blanket of thin material surrounding the comet. These gasses must then be purified and separated: feeding an expander-cycle rocket engine with co-axial swirl type and pintel injectors on a 3D printed truss structure attached to the comet. Similar to or in cooperation with TransAstra Corporation's Queen Bee ™ System  

Third, after the engine is operational we execute a plane-change maneuver and bring Griggs-Skjellerup's orbital plane in line with Earth's: roughly 22 degrees towards the ecliptic (flat level of the Solar System).

Fourth, we need to slow down the comet by roughly 7 kilometers per second and affect a rendevous with Earth. Currently, 26P's closest approach in the near future ~25 February 2024 is at 1.004 Astronomical Units (the average distance of the earth to the Sun) or 150 million kilometers.

NASA Discovery Class Program puts our mission at Skyhook Industries LLC precisely within its scope, specifically:

"5. What are the hazards and resources in the Solar System environment that will affect the extension of human presence in space?"

To accomplish its prime objective of enhancing our understanding of the Solar System, the unique approach of the Discovery Program is to:

• increase flight rates
• contain total mission costs
• improve performance through the use of new technology
• broaden university and industry participation, and
• increase public awareness of solar system exploration.

 https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/programs/discovery 

Water (ice) is the new gold of outer space, but far more valuable. It can be used for drinking, radiation-shields from cosmic rays and solar flares. Not to mention we can use electrolysis to create breathable oxygen from water. Studies show people don't do very well anywhere without oxygen!