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Asteroid mining and the new economics of outer space

by Molly Wood

Sep 18, 2017

It sounds like science fiction, but companies are putting real work into finding metals floating around on frozen rocks.

Space nerds Molly Wood and Kimberly Adams geek out about asteroid mining on the show. Above, an image mosaic of the asteroid Eros, with sunlight coming from the northeast, taken by the robotic NEAR Shoemaker space probe in 2000.

Photo Courtesy of NASA/Newsmakers

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