Why NASA wants to mine an asteroid full of precious metals worth $700 quintillion
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For the first time, NASA is planning a mission to explore an asteroid. The space rock, 16 Psyche, is full of potentially valuable precious metals like gold and platinum, but that's not why they're going.Aug. 21, 2019
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