S8 Ep912: PREVIEW for Later Today: Doug Messier. Doug Messier details a commercial space partnership aiming to capture asteroids for mining water and metals, which would significantly reduce costs for future space construction.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 1:04.3 | with colleague Doug Messier. Doug keeps a substack page following the developments in commercial space especially. |
| 1:12.3 | Here, an asteroid capture and mining company, partnering with the Space Force and |
| 1:18.7 | with the Air Force Academy, and other partners to come. |
| 1:24.4 | Doug gives us some of the background, the backstory of of asteroid capturing and what they're proposing in the test up to the real thing, the asteroid belt being a little beyond reach right now. We'll get there. Here's Doug on capturing an asteroid, bringing it back, parking it in orbit, and mining it. |
| 1:45.7 | That's the plan, just like the Klondike, once upon a time. |
| 1:50.8 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:51.9 | They're going to spend two years of the Air Force Academy and Transaster |
| 1:57.2 | developing various technologies needed to capture, process, and transport asteroids. |
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