Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time ...

There are millions of pieces of rock, known as asteroids, flying around our solar ... want to get precious materials like water and even gold out of them. It might mean space ships could stop ...

On the plus side, mining those asteroids is tons of fun. Jump in your space freighter, blast off to one of the asteroids passing through your claim, then land on it with your shuttle craft.