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Despite the early financial support from wealthy investors and the backing of well-known space-exploration researchers, Planetary Resources faces many technical questions and uncertainties about costs and the technology required to extract materials from asteroids.
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And he drew a parallel with the situation at McLaren in the early 1980s, when wealthy Saudi businessman Mansour Ojjeh bought a shareholding in the team and enabled it to grow quickly into the dominant force in F1.
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He had arrived in the toney suburb of San Marino in the early 1980s using the name Chichester and befriending wealthy residents.
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