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New firm set to Mine Asteroids and setup space colonies


Darth Biscuit

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idk how far they'll get with it, but it's damn cool...

The new firm, called Deep Space Industries, Inc., announced today (Jan. 22) that it plans to launch a fleet of prospecting spacecraft in 2015, then begin harvesting metals and water from near-Earth asteroids within a decade or so. Such work could make it possible to build and refuel spacecraft far above our planet's surface, thus helping our species get a foothold in the final frontier.

http://www.space.com/19368-asteroid-mining-deep-space-industries.html

There's another company called 'Planetary Resources' that has set out to do the same...

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