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Exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around, but instead of looking down now at what is underneath our feet, we are starting to look up and see what else is out there. ultimately, what we are looking at doing is going to an asteroid, landing on it, taking samples and then, kind of bringing them back. yes, we're going asteroid mining! and these are the concept designs for machines that could one day be part of a new gold rush — well, actually, platinum rush — that could potentially be worth quintillions of pounds. and this is the first part of that robot — the cla...

Behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so, we thought before the landing that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we've actually started analysing it, we realise it's actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and, as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial asteroid mining? i think it's a really fascinating area. will it be economic to bring back a large fragment of an asteroid, which is very metal rich, say? will it make more economic sense to re...

Asteroids a lot closer to earth. and one of those is called ryugu, and that is the one all the fuss was about. back in 2018, we visited the japanese space agency, jaxa, to meet the team behind hayabusa2. this audacious mission successfully flew to ryugu, blew a hole in it, and brought samples back to earth. so, we thought before the landing, that it was one sort of asteroid, but now we have actually started analysing it, we realise it's actually experienced an awful lot of alteration with water. and as we know, water could mean life. but what does professor bridges think about commercial aster...

Very metal—rich, say? or will it make more economic sense to recycle and reuse or have a new mine on earth? it could take decades before anyone successfully pulls off asteroid mining, which, considering there are only a few protections in place for the preservation of space, means that hungry pioneers might end up further exploiting our natural world for profit. of course, not all space research is about what we bring back from the beyond. as more and more of us head up there, paul carter has been looking at how we might go about building space habitats for humans. the international space st...

And all of this begs the question — as we venture into space, how are we going to live? where are we going to live? and what are we going to live on? so, as humans, we have been exploiting the resources on earth for as long as we have been around, but instead of looking down now at what is beneath our feet, we are starting to look up and see what else is out there. ultimately what we're looking at doing is going to an asteroid, landing on it, taking samples and then bringing them back. yes, we're going asteroid mining! and these are the concept designs for machines that could one day be part...