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[i]Perhaps it will be a platinum rush that finally opens up the final frontier. On Tuesday, a new company called Planetary Resources Inc. will unveil its plans to mine asteroids that zip close by Earth, both to provide supplies for future interplanetary travelers and to bring back precious metals like platinum. The venture may sound far-fetched — perhaps along the lines of Newt Gingrich's campaign promise to colonize the moon — but it has already attracted some big-name investors, including Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Google, as well as profitable technology development contracts. "If you believe that resources in space are critical towards a space-faring future, you will inevitably come to the result that the asteroids — in fact, the near-Earth asteroids — are the steppingstones to the rest of the solar system," Eric C. Anderson, one of the company's co-founders, said in a telephone interview.[/i]
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