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- Planetary Resources aims to mine asteroids – and possibly save humanity
Posted by : Brij Bhushan
Friday, 13 November 2015
Back in May I wrote about House Resolution 2262 – or the SPACE Act – which effectively cleared any regulatory hurdles that kept companies from mining in space. I sat down with the President and Chief Engineer of Planetary Resources, a company that plans to do just that. It’s my nature to be skeptical, both on a personal and professional level. When you hear that a company wants to travel to space and “drill, baby drill,” it all sounds decidedly science fiction. My time with Chris Lewicki, brief as it was, changed my mind. “Most people think this is science fiction and it probably won’t happen…
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