Space Miners Wanted...Someday...Soon!

     The hype for the industrialization of space seems to be picking up speed lately. I've been seeing more than the usual amount of plans to make near-Earth and beyond-Earth space a profitable business, and the neat thing is there seems to be some actual meat on the bone now!

     Elon Musk and his company, Space-X, have successfully delivered cargo to the International Space Station, and are on schedule for more deliveries. Virgin Galactic is rounding the corner on actually starting their space tourism business and there are literally dozens of new companies springing up that have viable plans to begin business ventures beyond Earth orbit.

     Two of those new start-up companies are DSI, and Planetary Resources. Both companies have plans in the next couple of years to send out robotic probes that will survey and eventually collect asteroids to mine for resources. Here's a LINK to an article on POPSCI that goes into more details about what they plan to do. I'm excited to finally see Industry begin to move into the realm of space. A government initiative can only do so much, jump-starting space exploration. It's private industry that will really be what moves humanity beyond the confines of Earth.