Matt Gialich

It doesn't have to have nice parachutes that come out to slow you down really slow so I don't like hurt my precious cargo.

In fact, I don't think we're going to use parachutes.

What we're probably going to use is if, you remember when you were a kid and you would launch little model rockets and they'd have streamers?

Probably just going to use a streamer to slow it down enough so that when it impacts the ground, the metal is recoverable.

And being able to remove those constraints of scientific instrumentation and value collection from it really opens up the envelope here.

One thing that's a little bit crazy that I don't think a lot of people realize, you may not as well as, we've already mined asteroids before.

We have?

Like the Japanese JAXA has done this twice and NASA has done it once.

So the Japanese did it with a mission called Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2.

They both went out to asteroids, took samples from them and brought it back to Earth.

And OSIRIS-REx went out to an asteroid called Bennu, which is how we really found out about these rubble piles, right?

Bennu was a really cool asteroid.

I think it was about a kilometer and a half in size.

And it was just a whole bunch of essentially little particles stuck together with static electricity.

And so if you ever watched the landing of OSIRIS-REx or landing, I call it landing because they didn't really land.

They just like sunk into the surface.

And then this is where NASA does extremely good job.

And I don't think anybody else can do it to this level.

They thought it was fucking solid.

They go to land and they start sinking into the surface, but they had thought through this and had a theory that maybe it wasn't solid.