In this case, metals and fuel from asteroids can expand the in-space industries of this century.
He said he's hopeful that ventures such as Deep Space Industries can succeed as more companies venture into space, however.
This might be a little difficult for some to reconcile with my recent dismissal of a claim by Deep Space Industries.
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Last week US company Deep Space Industries (DSI) announced plans to use asteroid material for manufacture by harvesting them and using 3D printers sent into space.
He served on the boards of several companies, including Marathon Oil, Learjet, Cinergy, Taft Broadcasting, United Airlines, Eaton Corporation, AIL Systems, Thiokol, and Space Industries International, a company that I co-founded.
Deep Space Industries said it can build its first class of probes largely with off-the-shelf parts and book them on other launch vehicles, such as the French-built Ariane rockets or the Falcon boosters developed by SpaceX.
But Deep Space Industries Chairman Rick Tumlinson, a longtime booster of private space efforts, said the company sees itself as the 21st-century version of the "settlers and shopkeepers" who followed the Lewis and Clark expedition into the American West.
That plus the news of the vastly larger 1012 DA 14 which has just gone sailing past (in a near miss that in astonomical terms is hardly a miss at all) leads to the hope that Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources get going with their idea of mining asteroids pretty sharpish.
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Advances in this space are likely to create new industries with significant implications for investors.
The community company has plans to use it as a "flexible space" accommodating food and tourism industries.
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Some industries are just not well suited to provide time and space for nursing mothers, Bouchard says.
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No wonder other industries are trying to capture the same magic, and the space sector is no exception.
In Europe's North Sea, expanding industries have tried to claim three times the amount of ocean space than is available, said Douvere, of UNESCO.
It probably was a good idea to pressure the too-big-for-its-breeches social-media giant to make its paid space more effective, and it was a move that drew muttered agreement from many CMOs in other industries.
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