{"id":21602,"date":"2016-02-04T11:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-race-to-mine-asteroids-gains-international-support"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:37:11","slug":"the-race-to-mine-asteroids-gains-international-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-race-to-mine-asteroids-gains-international-support","title":{"rendered":"The Race To Mine Asteroids Gains International Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjYYC-M0hxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the future, folks.<\/p>\n<p>There is more mineral wealth just floating around our solar system than a million times the amount Earth EVER contained. As these asteroids are mined, tunnels will be built, forming the basis for a space station and\/or colony. This fact more than doubling the usefulness of the entire operation, AND it\u2019s return on investment. I think THIS is going to be the way in which we\u2019ll begin to colonize our Solar System. Also, a lot of the hazardous (to the environment, human beings, and\/or both) that are an inevitable byproduct of heavy industry on our planet could be exported to stations like these, tripling the value of the entire operation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Today, the Luxembourg Government <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gouvernement.lu\/5653386\">announced<\/a> that they are taking steps to become Europe\u2019s hub for mining space resources.<\/p>\n<p>The small European country plans to establish the necessary legal and regulatory framework and invest in related research and development projects. They\u2019re even considering investing in already-established asteroid mining companies like the U.S. based Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes shortly after the United States took a huge step forward in making commercial space mining legal. President Obama signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act (CSLCA) in November, which stated that U.S. companies are entitled to maintain property rights of resources they\u2019ve obtained from outer space.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-race-to-mine-asteroids-gains-international-support\">Continue reading \u201cThe Race To Mine Asteroids Gains International Support\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the future, folks. There is more mineral wealth just floating around our solar system than a million times the amount Earth EVER contained. As these asteroids are mined, tunnels will be built, forming the basis for a space station and\/or colony. This fact more than doubling the usefulness of the entire operation, AND [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44111,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions\/44111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}