The sky is, and has always been, a mine.Human civilization has been using meteoritic iron ever since the Neolithic period (Tylecote 1992, p.3). And as humankind evolved, it realized it need not wait for stones to fall from above, but it can go up there and mine the sky.
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Pop, V. (2013). Legal considerations on asteroid exploitation and deflection. In Asteroids: Prospective Energy and Material Resources (Vol. 9783642391682, pp. 659–680). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39244-3_29
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