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Luxembourg Legalizes Space Mining -- Here's What That Means for You


Luxembourg Legalizes Space Mining -- Here's What That Means for You

Friday, Sept. 22, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mining spacecraft -- launched just over one year ago from Cape Canaveral -- returned to Earth. It didn't stay long, however. Gathering speed from Earth's gravitational pull, OSIRIS accelerated and headed right about out into deep space, en route to a planned 2018 rendezvous with the asteroid "Bennu."

Once there, OSIRIS will attempt to mine mineral samples from the 66.1 million-ton chunk of space-rock. OSIRIS will then return these samples to Earth for examination -- all of which will be perfectly legal, thanks to the good legislators of Luxembourg.

If you squint you can see it -- NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mining spacecraft, boxed in this NASA photo.

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Source: Fool.com

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