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	Podcast:		Future Tense - Full program podcast
	Episode:		Off earth mining and the opening of space
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:28:30
	Publish Date:		2014-01-18 18:30:00
	Description:		Rick Tumlinson is a US businessman whose ambition is to mine asteroids and to then use the material he extracts to power space craft and satellites. He talks of developing galactic ‘gas stations’. In part three of our special summer series we look at the technical, political and legal issues involved in ‘off-earth mining’. (Please note this program was originally broadcast on the 10th of March 2013)
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