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In order to mindfully extract, examine and experiment on resources in space, it is important to first familiarize ourselves with past acquired research. Prior to 1991, our knowledge of asteroids was limited to telescope images and fragments that survived their fall to Earth. However, in 1991, NASA spacecraft, Galileo, flew by the asteroid Gaspra on its way to Jupiter and recorded 57 images from a distance of approximately 5300 km.
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Froehlich, A. (2018). Overview. In: Froehlich, A. (eds) Space Resource Utilization: A View from an Emerging Space Faring Nation . Studies in Space Policy, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66969-4_2
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