NASA gave the contract of asteroid mining to Deep Space Industries and Planetary Resources. These two firms will join together to design practical methods of the mining of asteroid.
The successful landing of probe on comet motivated NASA for this particular mission. The chief objective behind the mission is to bring market instrument in the arena of Space Travel. These market instruments include investment, commercialization and much more.
Nowadays, finding novel resources are the major obstacle in every innovative work. It is considered as the basic requirement for the beginning of any groundbreaking work. Hence, the government agency contemplated on ways through which it can attract investors to this field. The mining of asteroid can offer extremely precious resources such as minerals, metals, carbonaceous and silicate minerals. Later on, private companies or NASA can sell these things at a really high cost. According to the rough estimation of NASA, these asteroid related items can be sold at a price ranging from $5000 to $25000 per kilogram.
Daniel Faber, CEO of Deep Space stated that the company decorated the ordinary asteroid mission of NASA with the idea of commercialism. The principal goal of Deep Space is to fulfill the financial needs of NASA for the Mars and moon exploration. All the materials which the company will gather from asteroid would be sold in the international market.
Currently, both the private firms are working on plans to extort worthy materials from the surface of cosmic bodies. They are also responsible of the examination and accomplishment of the entire mission.