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Plantary Resources Cultivates High School Aerospace Talent
Six lucky students are serving as paid interns at the Bellevue company that hopes to mine minerals from asteroids, as reported on KING 5.
Bellevue based Planetary Resources is providing some lucky young interns the opportunity to help boldly go where no one has gone before. The company announced plans last year to explore and mine natural resources from near-earth asteroids.
The company raised over $1.5 million in funding in June 2013 via Kickstarter for the world’s first crowdfunded public-use orbiting space telescope. Planetary Resources involves ex-NASA and ex-Microsoft employees, as well as a star-studded slate of investors and advisers, including Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, filmmaker James Cameron and Microsoft's former Chief Software Architect Charles Simonyi, who has traveled to space as a tourist aboard Russian Soyuz crafts.
Now the company is harnessing the bright young minds of six teenage interns from the Aviation High School in the Renton School District to contribute to its ambitious efforts to explore space. More on the efforts of the interns and employees of Planetary Resources in this story from King 5.