Asteroid Exploration And Utilization By George Botbyl

Throughout history, peoples have migrated to new lands in order to exploit the new land’s resources. So according to Cruddas (2016), going into outer space is just repeating what others have done in history. According to Belfiore (2014), mining asteroid is done

Neil Armstrong 's 1969 lunar landing was one of humanity 's greatest accomplishments. Since then, we have found that an infinite supply of knowledge and resources await us just outside our atmosphere. Today, however, critics are beginning to argue more and more that the cost of space exploration is too high, and therefore new technological developments should be left to the private sector. Whether funded privately or by the government, funding of space exploration is imperative because NASA is essentially the only agency with the technological capabilities to support aircraft manufacturing, air safety and air transportation. Space exploration has also resulted in remarkable innovations that has played a key role in aeronautics research, preventative medicine, and allows scientists to study asteroids, along with other space debris and their impacts on Earth.

NASA is a key player in our technological growth. It leads in innovating technology development in both public and private industries across the board from aviation to zoology. In add-on, increasing the space program funding may increase our defense. As it will be exceedingly important that America innovates its space program for defense, from telecommunication to aviation. Likewise, what if an asteroid comes in our proximity and threatens our existence?, we ought to have something

Have you ever thought about spending valuable resources on space exploration? In several stories it explains to you you about reasons why we should and should not spend valuable resources on earth. For Example some of the reasons are to spend resources on space and some are not to valuable resources on space, other stores tell you ideas what is happening if we do go deeper into thinking about spending our resources. We should not spend valuable resources on space exploration. For example, there are many reasons why we should spend money on earth before we go outer space and not know what we are doing. Another reasons is not to spend money on space is because if it don’t help us later on in the future what is the point of spending so much money if it not going to be useful in the future.

Although it may seem that we do not have problems in space, we actually do, asteroids are coming earlier than ever before in the chart Known Near-earth Asteroids claims that in 1986 there were barely 2000 NEAs and in 2013 there was over 12000! This shows that we need to prepare for bigger asteroids that could come at anytime! Imagine how that chart could go up in the next decade. NASA should fund asteroid studies because they could come up with a way to defend our earth from big asteroids.

Many people including myself believe this because it could help our economy. According to NASA.Gov “the meteorites could contain precious metals, minerals, and even new elements that could be added to the periodic table” They could be used on Earth with trade value. This would give The U.S a humongous boost around 10 billion dollars to our GDP (gross domestic product value). The asteroid

Asteroids can have things that would benefit the Earth. Mining Asteroids Planetary Resources states that “one asteroid may contain more platinum than mined in entire history.” If we could mine these asteroids we could get many precious minerals. Along with minerals, the Mining Asteroids

At 11:55 Galactic Universal Time (GUT), Captain Wyatt Earp Callaway, and his first mate, Jolker Johansson, were seated in the ship's small cockpit, heading for their next port of call, when an asteroid alert warning appeared on the small navigation screen, on the console in front of them. Immediately, the two men began keeping a vigilant watch for the rogue asteroids, that were reported, to be in their immediate location. Asteroids are very fast moving, unpredictable entities, that require a state of constant alertness by crew members, who are piloting ships, in their

First, is that NASA should fund asteroids studies because for more resources. What we can do with the asteroids is by selling the asteroids and that we can use it. If we sell asteroids we can use the money like for defence, health, education, and other stuff. Yet in ¨NASA's 2013 budget puts Brakes On Planet Probes¨ NASA could plan out what goes to what. Like they could use the money for science, exploration, space operation, and more. We can also use the asteroids for resources - gold, iron,diamond, emeralds maybe. But we can also get resources from other countries and we don’t have to use asteroids. Anyway we can sell asteroids to get more money and get resource in a way we could have never imagine.

Because astronomers, when provided with the proper resources, are able to determine the rick of asteroid impact, should be granted government money to find near-Earth asteroids. As stated before, though the risk of collision is low, asteroids serve more purpose than simply collision probability. By collecting asteroid samples or collecting evidence from observation, asteroids can provide information on the complex mixtures of metals and rocks that could have existed in the interstellar cloud after a supernova explosion. In terms of political policy, this would be considered scientific progress. Even when it may seem that astronomers have collected a lot of evidence on asteroids, there is always something new that can be learned from new found information, even if it is simply a reassurance of previous observations. The progress, no matter how slow, would provide more evidence to back up claims and would still provide more details about the universe before human's

With water consumption requirements being rather large in platinum mining, it is a greater concern for the more arid region of South Africa where the majority of PGM reserves are located. South Africa’s recent water shortages demonstrate how valuable and scarce fresh water is unfortunately becoming, making conversing its use and giving close attention to the processes that consume it vital for the sustainability of the future. The platinum mines will certainly continue to exacerbate the situation for the near term.When looking to space the potentials of just this one mineral resource are staggering, a single 500-meter platinum rich asteroid contains 175 times the global annual output of platinum or 1.5 times the known global platinum reserves. While this entire asteroid is not going to be brought back to Earth, it does demonstrate that once asteroid mining becomes operational there is certainly more than enough resources to meet and expand the needs for it. If companies like Planetary Resources can reduce the costs of asteroid mining it is possible some of these resources can be brought back to Earth for use there. In the example of platinum this can clearly be a beneficial development if it can alleviate the demand on mines like in South Africa, reducing the environmental costs of platinum on

To better understand the asteroid mining industry, a brief understanding of how asteroids are composed and useful is essential. Asteroids are pieces of rock, mineral, and metal in a compact form. There are an indefinite amount of asteroids in our solar system today and about 9,000-10,000 known around Earth. The exploration of asteroids has found that they contain trillions of dollars worth of minerals and metals including gold, silver, platinum, iron, nickel, water, and hydrogen. These valuable metals, for example platinum, is available up to grades 100 ppm on asteroids, whereas the mines in South Africa contain 5 to 10ppm (Sonter.) Because of the amount of available resources and the quality at which the resources can be found are the obvious reasons why this industry may explode. Asteroid mining is the extraction of

Due to the large number of space exploration projects, a large belt of debris has formed that can be hazardous to other operational spacecraft. As engineers, we have an ethical responsibility to prevent pollution of Earth’s atmosphere. We have learned a hard lesson on the value of environment from right here on Earth. Trends show that the debris belt circling the Earth will only get bigger, and become more hazardous to spacecraft.

The mysterious vastness beyond Earth has allured many scientists to explore and contribute much of their effort to the understanding of space. Although humans have been looking up at space for thousands of years, the physical exploration of this frontier has been only going on for the past few decades. Our current understanding of space is unparalleled to any time before in our history, but we still only know a small fraction of what there is to learn. Governments around the world spend about $40 billion dollars a year (Rockefeller, 2010) hoping to undertake tasks such as “human exploration of the solar system” to discovering the origins of life itself (Tatarewicz, 2009, p. 531). Recently, the private sector has also shown interest in space exploration in order to engage in profitable activities such as harnessing minerals from asteroids. Although it is easy to debate about the benefits and negatives of space exploration in its entirety, it is simpler focus on one aspect of it - the direct effect it has to those down on Earth. Rather than trying to decide whether or not going to other planets is worth it, this paper will argue about the value of the terrestrial benefits of space exploration. It is an important topic to think about as programs such as space exploration change lives and help acquire knowledge. Despite the large costs associated with space exploration, the multitude of discoveries in the past few decades has greatly improved daily life on Earth, the jobs the

This article is useful to my research because of the analysis of the relationship between each step in space exploration and the possible benefits in the science field. Although this article is shorter than most of other resources, it clearly explains the whole processes of space exploration as a benign cycle, space resources produce economy, economy provides technologies, technologies creates opportunities to future exploration, future exploration leads to more discoveries and resources, and then back to increase in economy. It is a unique perspective of explaining the reason why we need to explore outer space and mining resources, each step produces considerable benefits.