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NASA's Reconfigurable Space Suit
   110 years after the basic idea is described, NASA is still working out the design. Now, they're reconfigurable and plug-n-play.

Is Planetary Resources An Asteroid Mining Company?
   'This must be a golden planet—this little asteroid.'

Arkyd Spacecraft To Hunt Asteroid Platinum, Water
   'This must be a golden planet—this little asteroid.' At least, that's what they are hoping.

Building A Better Space Suit - The Biosuit
   'I had stepped outside the car with Lord Kelvin, both of us, of course, wearing our air-tight suits.' - Randall P. Serviss, 1898

Asteroid Miners Wanted!
   'We must dig down, and then doubtless we shall find the metal.'- Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

Deep Space Industries To Mine Asteroids
   '...in a few minutes a hole had been dug in the comparatively light soil of the asteroid.'- Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

MIT's Latest Biosuit For Fashionable Astronauts
   'You'd need a space suit to make any kind of a successful trip outdoors.'- Manly Wade Wellman, 1947.

Tyson Says Asteroid Miners Will Be First Trillionaires
   '...Come together here under the influence of their mutual gravitation, and formed a little metallic planet.'- Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

Suit Up! Fifty Years Of Spacewalks Video
   'I experienced for a few minutes the delicious, indescribable pleasure of being a little planet...'- Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

NASA Misses $5Trillion Funding Boost
   'This must be a golden planet—this little asteroid.' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

Hayabusa 2 To Begin Asteroid Mining
   'We must dig down, and then doubtless we shall find the metal.' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

Mining Of Golden Asteroid Foretold In 1898 Science Fiction
   'This must be a golden planet—this little asteroid.' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

Trillionaires Still Earth-Bound
   'I shall never forget the sight... when the yellow gleam of the precious metal appeared under the star dust.' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

It's Spacewalk Sunday, Thanks To The ESA
   'The delicious, indescribable pleasure of being a little planet swinging through space...' - Garrett P. Serviss, 1898.

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