January 24, 2013

Artistic concept of the construction of a large revolving asteroid-mining space station (Image courtesy Deeps Space Industries)

The American company Deep Space Industries, Inc. has announced its intention to extract minerals and water from asteroids. We know that asteroids, including the many that pass close to Earth called NEO (Near-Earth Objects), can contain a lot of water and minerals such as iron, gold, platinum, nickel and other useful both for the expansion of humanity into the solar system and for our needs on Earth.