A short video from Spacevidcast about space mining:
Mining asteroids isn’t easy and now with some new scientific data it may actually be even harder than we originally thought! What are the risks and how do we overcome them? Check out this SpacePod for your answers!
I wouldn’t call “landing” humans on an asteroid a fantasy when that’s what NASA would like to do in 2025, 12 years from now. Not saying I have a great deal of faith in them meeting that deadline just that I wouldn’t call it a “fantasy”. But yeah, it would be dumb to “land” on something with such negligible gravity. We need to capture and contain them, then we sift/sort out the pieces as we start to break it down for the stuff we want out of it.