NASA s interest in"another key area of exploration for NASA is...

NASA s interest in

"another key area of exploration for NASA is mining the precious metals embedded in large asteriods, which could be worth millions back here on Earth -- metals like iron, nickel, titanium, platinum group metals, crucial to fuel-cell and clean-tech projects, and rare-earth elements such as lithium, used in batteries and mobile phones." cont.

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makes me wonder if space programmes actually need these precious metals.......and if that end user is included in end sales or even pre-investments or in calculations for the future price and exclusivity of holding these metals.