TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Planetary Resources, a new venture supported by Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and James Cameron, plans on mining asteroids for rare-earth metals.

It’s a long-term, ambitious plan that is more likely to fail than it is to succeed. Granted. But they’re trying to expand space exploration beyond low-earth orbit, and that’s awesome. I want to see manned exploration of our solar system in my lifetime, and this is a step toward it. I hope it succeeds.