Viewpoint: Asteroid Mining—Not As Crazy As It Seems

Credit: Dassault Systemes
In a recent TV interview, cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson gushed about the prospects of mining in space and the benefits that it might afford humanity: How about mining an asteroid for natural resources? [. . . ] There are more natural resources on asteroids than have ever been mined in the history...

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