We send these robots off as our little planetary emissaries to go and do the science.

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That catalogue is a good start, but Planetary Resources plans to go further.

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At present, British government policy specifically bars any public programmes connected with human spaceflight, and it has directed that any monies instead go towards the robotic exploration of space - for example in Earth observation and unmanned planetary probes.

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