It Official Asteroid Mining To Become A Reality
 ASTEROID MINING PETER DIAMANDIS AND ERIC ANDERSON ANNOUNCED THAT NEWLY FORMED COMPANY, PLANETARY RESOURCES PLANS TO LAUNCH EXPLORATORY SPACECRAFT WITHIN TWO YEARS AND COULD BE EXTRACTING VALUABLE MATERIALS FROM NEAR-EARTH ASTEROIDS A FEW YEARS AFTER THAT. We called it! In Seattle today, Peter Diamandis and Eric Anderson announced that newly formed company, Planetary Resources plans to launch exploratory spacecraft within two years and could be extracting valuable materials from near-Earth asteroids a few years after that."This company is not about paper studies," said Anderson, who co-founded Planetary Resources with fellow commercial spaceflight advocate Peter Diamandis. "Its not about thinking and dreaming about asteroid mining. Theres plenty of talking. This is about doing. Well create robots that go into deep space and mine asteroids. Were not going to talk about it, were just going to do it."The company will be headquartered in Bellvue, Washington (next door to Microsoft and Boeing), Anderson said during a press conference held at Seattles Museum of Flight. Chris Lewicki, president and chief engineer of the asteroid mining firm and formerly NASAs Mars mission manager, said companies like Planetary Resources could help turn Seattle into the "SILICON VALLEY OF SPACE."Planetary Resources plans to go after water, precious metals like platinum, and other materials found on nearby asteroids in three phases. The first phase will be to launch a series of Earth-orbiting space telescopes to scope out suitable mining targets among whats believed to be millions of near-Earth asteroids measuring 50 meters or greater in size.READ MORE...For the latest please visit www.33rdsquare.com