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NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

456 points · 391 comments · Muhammad523

  1. Aboutplants · · focus · HN ↗
    For better or worse it won’t be long until we get private exploration for minerals and water on the Moon and nearby planets, at a relatively decent scale (in comparative terms)
    1. Rover222 · · focus · HN ↗
      Please explain the "worse" part. Should we be in a moral panic about lifeless barren chunks of rock being put to some use?
      1. pjc50 · · focus · HN ↗
        We're not 100% sure about "lifeless" yet, on Mars.
        1. Rover222 · · focus · HN ↗
          true, but I think the space mining talk is mostly about asteroids and the moon
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