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First asteroid mining company

First asteroid mining company
Who
Planetary Resources Inc
What
First
Where
United States
When
24 April 2012
Officially founded in November 2010, Arkyd Astronautics is a US-based company (now a subsidiary of Planetary Resources Inc) unveiled at a press conference on 24 April 2012 at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, USA. Planetary Resources Inc is a private company that intends to exploit mineral wealth in asteroids. Its investors include film director James Cameron (USA), Google co-founder Larry Page (USA) and entrepreneur and space tourist Charles Simonyi (Hungary).