Luxembourg Legalizes Space Mining -- Here's What That Means for You
Friday, Sept. 22, NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mining spacecraft -- launched just over one year ago from Cape Canaveral -- returned to Earth. It didn't stay long, however. Gathering speed from Earth's gravitational pull, OSIRIS accelerated and headed right about out into deep space, en route to a planned 2018 rendezvous with the asteroid "Bennu."
Once there, OSIRIS will attempt to mine mineral samples from the 66.1 million-ton chunk of space-rock. OSIRIS will then return these samples to Earth for examination -- all of which will be perfectly legal, thanks to the good legislators of Luxembourg.
If you squint you can see it -- NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid mining spacecraft, boxed in this NASA photo.
Source: Fool.com