Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Deep Space Industries Forms to Mine Asteroids

http://moonandback.com/2013/01/22/deep-space-industries-forms-to-mine-asteroids/

DSI - DEEP SPACE INDUSTRIES 
[If you can dream it, you can be it.]

I watched the live announcement and they indicated more will be up on the web soon.
I see the above link is now live. Mouse over the pop up menu in bottom left corner.
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Deep Space Industries Forms to Mine Asteroids 

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — A new commercial spaceflight company unveiled its plans today to mine asteroids. At the Santa Monica Museum of Flying, the group of entrepreneurs laid out their vision for a viable business case mining asteroids. Co-founder Rick Tumlinson, CEO David Gump, author Steven Covey and other members of the team gave presentations to the assembled press and interested parties.

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Earlier today from BBC NEWS - SCIENCE  & ENVIRONMENT
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New venture 'to mine asteroids'

By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website

A new venture is joining the effort to extract mineral resources on asteroids.
The announcement of plans by Deep Space Industries to exploit the rare metals present in the space rocks turns asteroid mining into a two-horse race.
The other venture, Planetary Resources, went public with its proposals last year.
Advocates of asteroid mining hope it could turn into a trillion-dollar business, but some scientists are highly sceptical of the idea.
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Rick Tumlinson of SPACE FRONTIER FOUNDATION Co-Founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and now Co-Founder of DSI.
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Named one of the world’s top “Visionaries” and one the top one hundred most influential people in the space field by Space News, Rick Tumlinson is the Co-Founder of the Space Frontier Foundation, which has been called “pound for pound the most effective space organization on Earth.” From an old Texas family whose pioneering credits include helping start the Texas Rangers and fighting in the Alamo, Rick has spent his life fighting to open the space frontier. The son of an Air Force Sergeant and his English wife, he was educated primarily in England and Texas.

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David Gump - CEO DSI - Linkedin
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Current

CEO at Deep Space Industries Inc.

Past

President at Astrobotic Technology Inc.
President at Transformational Space Corp.
President at LunaCorp

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Is the mood right to have commercial enterprises to go to space quickly?

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There are near-limitless numbers of asteroids and more being discovered every year. More than 1,500 are as easy to reach as the Moon and are in similar orbits as Earth. Asteroids are filled with precious resources, everything from water to platinum. Harnessing valuable minerals from a practically infinite source will provide stability on Earth, increase humanity’s prosperity, and help establish and maintain human presence in space.
Published on Apr 26, 2012
Doug King, President & CEO of the Museum of Flight, opens the launch press event for Planetary Resources, Inc. on April, 24, 2012 at the Museum of Flight's Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. Visit www.PlanetaryResources.com for more information.


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And maybe back to the Moon.
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Back in 1983 I spent a few weekends selling new PCs that you had to hand wire cables to connect a monitor or a printer.

New products were offered, just place your order, send some money so they could then build the item, and wait and see if you got it before they went out of business. :-)

I remember ordering an early Epson MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer and waited a month and a half for it to be delivered to the "Digital Deli" store in Mountain View where I was moon-lighting while waiting to retire from the Navy.
[It is still out in the garage.  http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/AboutCorpHistory.jsp ]
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