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Asteroid Mining: To Infinity and Beyond, But What are the Legal Implications?

Newly formed Planetary Resources aims to establish commercial asteroid mining (Credits: Planetary Resoures).

April 24, 2012 marked a milestone in human activities in outer space with the announcement by a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors of the formation of Planetary Resources, Inc.  The company, which features such investors as aerospace innovator Ross Perot, Jr. and filmmaker James Cameron, is being led by President and Chief Engineer Chris Lewicki, a former NASA Mars [...]

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