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A company's plan to harvest off-world minerals is wild and exciting, but could its real promise lie in helping space science regain its footing, i.e. funding? Via Szabolcs Kósa 
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X Prize's Peter Diamandis, Space Adventures' Eric Anderson, NASA astronaut Tom Jones, and Mars mission manager Chris Lewicki, backed by visionary investors James Cameron, Larry Page, Ross Perot want to develop our Solar System's natural resources. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Planetary Resources' mission is mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of cost-effective exploration technologies, the company is poised to initiate prospecting missions targeting resource-rich asteroids that are easily accessible. Articles about ASTRONOMY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=astronomy
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Wisely, this group of visionaries is starting with very modest goals first. They plan to fund private space telescopes, so that private enterprise can safely analyze what is out there in space and then make a decision about sending astronauts to rendezvous with an asteroid. This baby step is far more reasonable than starting a crash program to build booster rockets to mine asteroids now.
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Meet the dynamic team that is bringing the future of space resources to the present.
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A group of tycoons including Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt have joined the Avatar director James Cameron in a scheme to mine valuable metals and water from asteroids that routinely pass the Earth...
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