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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
This does emphasize that there are some NEO asteroids that are fairly accessible with low delta v requirements. That's important for space development: The moon is handy as a nearby source of material, but appears to be be volatile poor. I could easily see expanded "sample return" robot missions to NEO asteroids to return material that could be used fairly early in Earth orbit. Asteroid mining might happen before lunar mining.
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It's an area that definitely needs to be developed more. I hope that this is the start of a series of missions... Assuming this one actually happens, that is.
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