A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year...
Planetary Resources, which counts Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its investors, plans to loft a set of tiny "cubesats" to Earth orbit in early 2014, to test out gear for its first line of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft.
Boo-yeah!
In other space-related news, SpaceShipTwo went supersonic for the first time during a test flight.
I wonder if there were pioneers in the colonial days who would gather together and debate the implications of new wagon-wheel technology, and what it might mean for the drive out west...
Sometimes it's awesome living in the future.
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