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Mining asteroids with AstroForge CEO Matthew Gialich | E1736

This Week in Startups

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How Far Out Into Space Are These Asteroids?

Asteroids are extremely valuable metals, and the only reason we see them on Earth is due to asteroid impacts that have happened millions of years ago. Nobody in history has successfully docked with an asteroid and brought materials back to Earth on an unmanned mission. "We're taking a lot more risk than a large space agency would take," says Elon Musk about his rocket company SpaceX.

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