Last week, California-based space company AstroForge launched what it claimed to be the first "commercial deep space mission in history." The company's plan was to send its washing machine-sized spacecraft, dubbed Odin, to visit asteroid 2022 OB5, a space rock roughly 330 feet in diameter that's millions of miles away from Earth. And while the company has grand ambitions to eventually mine asteroids as well, its second mission is unfortunately in serious trouble. A growing number of space companies have raised huge amounts of funds with the promise of turning errant space rocks into a lucrative source of money in […]

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