How will mining take place on asteroids? Video training "cosmoshaft"

Despite the fact that mining of minerals on asteroids is still a good topic for science fiction works (in the sense that it is a matter of the future), NASA is conducting tests to develop asteroids. By the way, the capture of the astroid, its delivery to the orbit of the moon with further study is no longer such a distant future; all this is part of the NASA plan to prepare the Martian expedition .

True, not on asteroids, but on their models, underwater. Why submarine? Well, at least some kind of simulation of conditions on asteroids, with almost no gravity and vacuum.
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Training takes place at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center.

Under water, astronauts must exit Orion capsules (it will be used in such asteroid travels), in prototypes of astroid space suits. After entering the “space”, workers in the mining space industry try their hand at extracting mineral samples.

Here is how it all looks:





Via NASA