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Essay Galaxy - Mining in Space
Mining in Space
On December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering
section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on
mining the planets. Speakers were Greg Maryniak of the Space Studies
Institute (SSI) and Dr. Carl Peterson of the Mining and Excavation
Research Institute of M.I.T.
Maryniak spoke first and began by commenting that the quintessential
predicament of space flight is that everything launched from Earth must be
accelerated to orbital velocity. Related to this is that the traditional
way to create things in space has been to manufacture them on Earth and
then launch them into orbit aboard large rockets. The difficulty with this
approach is the huge cost-per-pound of boosting anything out of this
planet's gravity well. Furthermore, Maryniak ....
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