Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space?
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 week agoThe OSIRIS-REx did manage to bring back some material from Bennu. We retrieved 121.6 grams and it cost around a $100 million. It took 8 years.
Comment on What is currently holding us back from mining in space?
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 1 week agoThe OSIRIS-REx did manage to bring back some material from Bennu. We retrieved 121.6 grams and it cost around a $100 million. It took 8 years.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes, but it still didn’t land. It very slowly approached then bounced while collecting the dust. This is probably the closest we have so far of landing.