How Asteroid Mining Will Pave the Way for Safe, Comfortable Space Exploration Vehicles and Even Space Colonies
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8 min readOct 7, 2019
We didn’t even know asteroids existed until 1801, when Giuseppe Piazza came across Ceres by accident while making a star map. Now we know there’s millions. Only about 20,000 are considered near Earth asteroids with about 860 of those over a kilometer in diameter.
