Company Plans
A new commercial venture has announced plans to land a small, privately funded spacecraft on a near-Earth asteroid in 2000 to gain scientific data and ``stake a claim'' for future mining rights. SpaceDev is hoping the sale of scientific data will pay for the cost of the mission, which is estimated...
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