Click above to listen to part 3 of What Goes Around, featuring Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, and Pete Worden, chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and former Director of the NASA Ames Research Center, describing the ins and outs of mining asteroids for water and fuel during space travel.

What Goes Around:
Part 1: Tom Szaky / Recycle Everything
Part 2: Eugene Kapustin / Water From Air
Part 3: Etienne Schneider / Mining Asteroids
Part 4: Paul Bogard / Soil Depletion

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