... show promising prospects for exploitation of natural resources on the Moon and asteroids. Although reliable technologies and mining processes still need to be fully developed, private companies have been showing serious interest in such ventures for...
... public opportunities for growth and leveraging established industries to repurpose them for space – like new materials, mining to extract water, oxygen and inks to print spare parts, agriculture to grow food in inhospitable terrain, space object...
... level of completeness Local resources would need to be mined and used to build machines and habitable infrastructure and ...the prospect of isolated scientific outposts, human-tended mining operations and centres for extreme adventure tourism. Since...
... space-based solar power matures into reality, asteroids are mined for rare metals, and fuel is produced in space ...future space reality – Moon colonisation, space tourism, asteroid mining, Mars inhabitance and other space-based activity. A significant...
... the development time of what can otherwise be long-timescale missions. Planetary Resources’ concept for asteroid mining. With development of spacecraft able to perform asteroid rendezvous and resource assessment already underway, development time...
... have profound effects on emotions and how people interact with one another, which she defines as ‘MINE’ and ‘OURS’. MINE (Mental, Inside the Person, and Essentialist), she proposes, has been the foundation of especially Western...