Asteroid miner takes a page from deep sea miners

A newly launched asteroid miner is looking to the history of deep sea mining as it attempts to navigate laws governing exploitation of space. "If you look at parallels, like deep sea mining, that went forward without a global treaty. The companies that wanted to do deep sea mining shook hands: 'We won't interfere with you if you don't interfere with us', that was the general approach going forward," said David Gump, Deep Space's chief executive officer.