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Asteroid mining company offers up 'Space Selfies' for crowd-funding space scope [i]The world's first public "photo booth" in orbit could ride on the first crowd-funded space telescope, if a commercial asteroid mining company's campaign is a success. Planetary Resources, a Seattle-based company that plans to extract raw materials from the asteroids for use in the exploration and development of space, kicked off its first [URL=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0?ref=pripage_home]Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign[/URL] on Wednesday (May 29) to raise $1 million from the public to build and launch a private space telescope. In return for pledges of $25, Planetary Resources will offer supporters the opportunity to send a digital photo of their choosing to orbit, have it displayed on the exterior of the company's satellite and re-photographed with the Earth as a backdrop. Higher pledge levels will provide students and other educational groups the chance to take control of the telescope for their own observations. "People of any age and background will be able to point the telescope outward to investigate our solar system, deep space or join us in our study of near-Earth asteroids" Chris Lewicki, Planetary Resources' president and chief engineer, said in a statement.[/i]
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