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From left, Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resources's chief executive and president; Étienne Schneider, deputy prime minister of Luxembourg; and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Luxembourg on a tour of Planetary Resources in Washington State.

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«H.R. 2262 fuels a new economy that will open many avenues for the continual growth and prosperity of humanity,» Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resource's president and chief engineer, said in a statement.

Planetary Resources, a Seattle - based start - up founded by former Google executives, formed in 2010 to «expand Earth's natural resource base.»

The most advanced of these, Planetary Resources, says it will have prospecting platforms in place in the next decade.

At the moment, a handful of companies such as Planetary Resources, Deep Space Industries and Kepler Energy and Space Engineering have announced various strategies to reach asteroids in the inner solar system.

For Planetary Resources, the first wave of development is to culminate in a doughnut - shape spacecraft heading on a prospecting mission to a near - Earth asteroid in 2020.

Back in April, Luxembourg's crown prince, his wife and government officials paid a visit to Planetary Resources, putting on white gowns, gloves, wispy caps and baby blue bootees — a distinctly unroyal outfit sometimes called a «bunny suit» — to take a close look at where the company is assembling small satellites.

Hard as it might be to imagine, a paradise of peace, plenty, and planetary purity is just as achievable as walking on the moon or carrying the world's informational resources in your pocket.

As a business, Planetary Resources is betting that by the time it extracts water from an asteroid, there will be a customer like NASA interested in buying water, hydrogen and oxygen.

Officials at Moon Express and Planetary Resources say they do not want unfettered freedom in space, nor do they seek withdrawal from the Outer Space Treaty.

9:15 Practical social change business designs solve the planetary problems based in resource issues.

Chris Lewicki, a former NASA scientist and currently the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, chats with Cambridge House Live's Bridgitte Anderson about opportunities for mining in outer space.

Eric Anderson, co-founder of Space Adventures and Planetary Resources remarked that «investors would have to be crazy to hand over their bank statements and tax returns to a startup that might not be around in a year.

For more information and to view photo / video highlights of past Expeditions, please visit: http://spaceangels.com/expedition Companies and organizations who've participated in previous Expeditions include: SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Planet [Labs], Facebook, Made in Space, Terra Bella, Planetary Resources, Spaceflight Industries, BlackSky Global, Ventions, Spire, Kymeta, Tethers Unlimited, Oculus, XCOR, Masten, Final Frontier Design, B612 Foundation, SETI Institute, Museum of Flight, Mojave Air & Spaceport, Boeing, NASA Ames, and more.

But there is also the promise of a unified planetary society living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.

Were the church able to provide a vision of a unified planetary society organized both politically and technologically in such a way as to make available the full resources of the earth for the benefit of all the world's people, would it be effective in generating social change?

Asserting that in our time the whole planetary system must be taken into account in planning for a humanly desirable future, he argues that the prime end must be to redirect the use of human and technological resources to overcoming the gap between the affluent nations and that much larger portion of mankind which still exists in hunger, poverty, disease, and misery.

This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.

«Chris had the technical experience and leadership skills that we needed at Planetary Resources to take it forward over the next decade,» says Anderson, who adds that Lewicki's passion and grit were other key factors in their hiring decision.

As the CEO and chief asteroid miner of Planetary Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being Resources, Inc. in Redmond, Washington, the 42 - year - old aerospace engineer is looking to identify how the materials in near - Earth asteroids — namely metals and water — can be used to one day facilitate long - haul space missions and travel, and even save the Earth's resources from being resources from being overused.

Participating in the conversation were Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education; Joan Steitz, a molecular biophysicist at Yale University who studies RNA; Shirley Malcom, head of the directorate for education and human resources at AAAS; and Sara Seager, a planetary scientist and physicist at MIT who studies the atmospheres of planets beyond the solar system.

«An asteroid in the Earth - moon system would provide a safer destination to begin developing our capability for human deep space exploration,» says Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, a space - mining firm in Seattle.

In that solutions space, there also lies a new charter for the social sciences; a call for more — and better — social scientific knowledge to inform and inspire the kind of transformative responses needed to face humanity's greatest challenge: to simultaneously safeguard planetary resources, social equity, and human wellbeing.

It really made me feel like they just want to spend money on design and fabricate some test vehicles but not launch them because # 1 it to expensive and # 2 they really don't know where to go or than an asteroid mission because Planetary Resources really doesn't want to spend their own money on R&D... Considering the events in the Ukraine and Iran... The world may end before the SLS / Orion goes anywhere other LEO or maybe just maybe to the Moon!!!

In December, Planetary Resources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aResources will launch the Arkyd 6, which will provide the first demonstration of the sensing technology that the company plans to use to detect resources on aresources on asteroids.

But in the three - and - a-half years since then, Planetary Resources has made significant progress towards developing and testing the technology needed to make its dream become a reality, according to Lewicki, who served as flight director for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, and surface mission manager for the Phoenix Mars Lander.

Eric Anderson, co-founder and co-chairman of Planetary Resources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homResources Inc., said in a statement, «This key technology for determining resources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on asteroids can also be applied towards monitoring and managing high - value resources on our homresources on our home planet.

In February 2015, Steve Glendenning ([email protected]) presented at the Planetary EPO Community's monthly community call to share out information regarding the NASA 3D Resources portal: http://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov

Our ISO Class 7 (Class 10,000) clean room facilities at Planetary Resources allow for multiple spacecraft builds and component assemblies in parallel.

Today, in times of resource scarcity, global warming and impending nuclear conflict, this claim is being boldly asserted once again — in the form, however, of a private - sector undertaking driven primarily by US tech billionaires from the new space industry, not least — as they claim — in order to secure the survival of mankind against home - made planetary collapse.

In light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the oceans and / or atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at mosIn light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the oceans and / or atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at mosin a decade or two at most?

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

: Re sunshades, yes, what LG said at 14, plus, the shades do nothing to reduce the ocean acidification... why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems **** concurrent with, and achieved by the same means, *** a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal... and... under *** 300 ppm *** in 20 — 100 years, at most?

# 30 mike said: Re sunshades, yes, what LG said at 14, plus, the shades do nothing to reduce the ocean acidification... why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems **** followed by *** a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal... and... under *** 400 ppm *** in *** a decade or *** two at most?

We got the idea together just by talking and laughing about the absurdity of the notion that the way out of this planetary crisis — which is deeply rooted in overuse of scarce resources — is to go out and «shop to save the planet.»

It is simply this: Earth's body is finite, its resources are limited, and its ecosystem services capable of irreversible degradation by the huge scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities, the ones we see rampantly overspreading the surface of our planetary home in our time.

Perhaps many too many leaders of the global political economy are spurning the moral obligations, responsibilities and duties associated with their stations in life by turning a blind eye to the gigantic scale and anticipated growth of human over-consumption, overproduction and overpopulation activities that can be seen precipitating the extirpation of species like the polar bear, the reckless dissipation of non-renewable natural resources and the drastic degradation of the environs of our planetary home.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

We have good scientific knowledge that our planetary home exists in space - time, is finite, has frangible ecological systems and possesses scarce resources, many of which are being dissipated by you and me, so that our children and coming generations will likely be deprived of them.

The same refusal to face reality that has trashed our financial resources is reflected in our inability to manage planetary resources.

If per human overconsumption of scarce resources; unbridled economic globalization overspreading the surface of our planetary home; and the skyrocketing increase of absolute global human population numbers could be occurring synergistically in our time and could have something to do with the distinctly human - driven predicament which looms ominously before humanity, does it make sense to consider, just for a moment, what might to done to set limits on these overgrown human activities?

Excerpt: President Obama's «science czar,» John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, «compulsory sterilization,» and the creation of a «Planetary Regime» that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

This fixed infrastructure coupled with a pretty much insatiable human demand drive for energy services may result in a once - in - a-species crisis if our planetary resource and ecosystems can no longer keep pace.

NOAH is a grassroots organisation founded in 1969 working for equal access to the Earth's resources for current and future generations staying within planetary boundaries.

Interest is growing in the nascent concept of planetary health, and a variety of information, resources, and opportunities for action now exist through the work of numerous projects and organizations.

To achieve that difficult - to - define state of mind would require the resources of between two and six planet Earths, according to a new study in a new journal that takes the concept of sustainability and applies some planetary arithmetic.

Tom Painter Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Specialties: Snow hydrology and water resources, energy balance of snow and ice, radiative forcing by light absorbing impurities in snow and ice, imaging spectroscopy and multispectral remote sensing, and planetary ices

This Article addresses this gap in the literature by investigating what level of biophysical resource use is associated with meeting people's basic needs, and whether this level of resource use can be extended to all people without exceeding critical planetary boundaries.