A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The First Phase of a Project Funded by NIAC
NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program has funded six projects. One of them is a tabletop-sized spacecraft that could fit on a big dining room table. The idea is to fly an artificial synthetic asteroid about the size of a beach ball in low Earth orbit with the mini-B, and use it to mine useful materials from it.
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