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Thread: Schweickart: Private Asteroid Mission is for the Benefit of Humanity

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    Schweickart: Private Asteroid Mission is for the Benefit of Humanity

    The B612 Foundation announced in June of this year that it plans to launch the first privately funded deep space mission, a space telescope that will map the inner solar system’s asteroid population and chart their orbits over the next hundred years, with the goal of finding every potentially Earth-impacting object. “This is a very [...]

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    I thought from the title that this could be the first private mission to an asteroid. I can't wait until I hear about that!
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