Space Mining is Now Legal. Thank You, USA!

The Space Act of 2015 has jumped all the hoops and finally passed US Congress. This piece of paper now allows for extracting resources by corporations. But if you have a company that can fly into space and extract resources would you be asking for anybody’s permission? Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and Joe Rogan deliver the funny while Katherine Herleman, ‎PhD student in Geological Sciences at Cornell University, delves into the professional points of view.