{"id":57704,"date":"2017-05-25T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-just-fast-tracked-its-mission-to-explore-a-10000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:02:29","slug":"nasa-just-fast-tracked-its-mission-to-explore-a-10000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/nasa-just-fast-tracked-its-mission-to-explore-a-10000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"NASA Just Fast-Tracked Its Mission to Explore a $10,000 Quadrillion Metal Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-just-fast-tracked-its-mission-to-explore-a-10000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The science community just figured out why we wont actually be doing space mining, until capitalism is no longer a factor anyways.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It might have just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/04\/28\/nasa-pushes-first-launch-of-its-mars-rocket-to-2019\/\">pushed back<\/a> its manned mission to Mars, but NASA just fast-tracked a planned journey to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-is-sending-a-probe-to-this-one-of-a-kind-metal-asteroid\">16 Psyche<\/a> \u2014 an asteroid made almost entirely of nickel-iron metal.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated to contain <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3175097\/nasa-plans-mission-to-a-metal-rich-asteroid-worth-quadrillions\/\">$10,000 quadrillion<\/a> in iron alone, if we could somehow mine Psyche\u2019s minerals and bring them back to Earth, it would collapse our comparatively puny global economy of $78 trillion many times over. Fortunately for the economic stability of our planet, NASA plans on looking but not extracting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a strange object,\u201d Lindy Elkins-Tanton, lead scientist on the NASA mission and the director of Arizona State University\u2019s School of Earth and Space Exploration, <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/3175097\/nasa-plans-mission-to-a-metal-rich-asteroid-worth-quadrillions\/\">told Global News Canada back in January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-just-fast-tracked-their-mission-to-explore-a-10-000-quadrillion-metal-asteroid\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-just-fast-tracked-their-mis...l-asteroid<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science community just figured out why we wont actually be doing space mining, until capitalism is no longer a factor anyways. It might have just pushed back its manned mission to Mars, but NASA just fast-tracked a planned journey to 16 Psyche \u2014 an asteroid made almost entirely of nickel-iron metal. Estimated to contain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}