1. Carl and Jefferson

2. The Asteroid Mining Company
Origionaly known as Arkyd Astronautics.
Renamed Planetary Resources in 2012.
Long term goal has always been asteroid miming.
The company started out making small, coast-effective, space telescopes for earth observation and astronomy.

3. Founders Eric C. Anderson Co-Founder Peter H. Diamandis Co-Founder
A vision of bringing space to earth.

4. Initial Investors Lary Page: Founder of Google
Ram Shiram: First investor in Google
Sir Richard Branson: Founder of Virgin Group

6. Planetary Resources aims to start a robotic asteroid mining industry.
First step will be to survey and analyze possible mining sites through in earth orbit satellites.
Next they will send survey probes to select asteroids for a more in-depth scan.
The end game is to start a fully automated mining system on asteroids

7. Water in space Used as fuel
Want to supply water to orbital propellant depot
Rocket fuel in space is more valuable than gold on earth

8. Radiation exposure A huge concern in space
Creating a product that can last the prolonged exposure
1 cubic meter of water can block almost all of the radiation in space.