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The NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft returned its collected sample on 24 September 2023 before continuing on into its extended mission to asteroid Apophis, which is set to make a close encounter of Earth in 2029. With an estimated 250 grams of material collected, we're looking forward to the results

Written in 1976 as a blueprint for expansion into space, Princeton professor Gerard K. O’Neill worked with NASA and other researchers for decades to validate and prove out his plans. The elegance and comprehensivess of his vision blends together a fundamental optimism about our ability to build and engineer

Hi everyone, New platform and framework for these updates, we hope this all works. Market The capital markets are still quite choppy, both for venture in general as well as for space in particular. With the collapse of Virgin Orbit, dramatically lower share prices for most of the space SPACs

So asteroid day is actually a thing. June 30th was chosen because it is the anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid impact, one of the most recent asteroid impacts that was felt and measured. While the general theme and the UN awareness campaign focus on planetary defense, we've always

The Next Generation - Timing and the new wave of asteroid mining companies The idea of asteroid mining has been around for a century, but actual activity to date has been very limited. Generation 1 ranged from 2010 to 2020 and saw lots of press releases and plans but very

Join the Pottery Club! Happy 2023 everyone! Year in Review Last year was busy, pretty chaotic and a wild ride in general. Building a company is never a clear straight line and we had our fair share of steps and resets. That said, we were able to grow our core