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Whose Space is it Anyway?

Past Present Future

CHAPTER

The Economics of Asteroid Mining

Asteroids are potentially sources of important minerals. They could well be extensions of both economic and political competition on Earth. The economics of asteroid mining are interesting, but it's undoubtedly true that if access to them was easy and cheap then there are things up there that it would make sense to mine.

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