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Asteroid Hunters Hope to Mine the Sky

Asteroid Mining
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A small group of entrepreneurs has big plans — literally, to mine the sky. Deep Space Industries (DSI), a new company in California, announced today that it hopes to build a fleet of asteroid-hunting spacecraft and launch by 2015. The ships would explore nearby asteroids for resources and use them to benefit Earth. “We sit in a sea of resources. It’s not something we can sit back and dream about,” said Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson. “Using low cost technologies, and combining the legacy of our space program with the innovation of today’s young high-tech geniuses, we will do things that would have been impossible just a few years ago. ” Those things that seemed impossible include building what they are calling “FireFly” spacecraft, to capture Near Earth Asteroids — asteroids that cross the Earth’s orbit or come within about 300 million miles of the Earth.

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Rick Tumlinson

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0.165335“We sit in a sea of resources. It’s not something we can sit back and dream about,” said Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson.
-0.0920366“We sit in a sea of resources. It’s not something we can sit back and dream about,” said Deep Space chairman Rick Tumlinson. “Using low cost technologies, and combining the legacy of our space program with the innovation of today’s young high-tech geniuses, we will do things that would have been impossible just a few years ago.”
0“This is the first commercial campaign to explore the small asteroids that pass by Earth,” said Tumlinson.
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Mark Sonter

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0.0884202“Mining asteroids for rare metals alone isn’t economical, but makes sense if you already are processing them for volatiles and bulk metals for in-space uses,” said Sonter.
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David Gump

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0.0937269“More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year,” said the company’s CEO, ...
0.0937269“More than 900 new asteroids that pass near Earth are discovered every year,” said the company’s CEO, David Gump. “They can be like the Iron Range of Minnesota was for the Detroit car industry last century — a key resource located near where it was needed. In this case, metals and fuel from asteroids can expand the in-space industries of this century. That is our strategy.”
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Ross Perot Jr.

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Eric Schmidt

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Larry Page

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James Cameron

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Organization: NASA

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Facility: International Space Station

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City: Detroit

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FieldTerminology: metal parts

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