UNSW Associate Professor Leonhard Bernold and his student Aaron Bonnano believe they are ahead in the race to live and mine on the moon.

The Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) is currently organising a workshop that will look at the possibility of Off Earth Mining on both the moon and asteroids. For more information please visit the workshop website - go to: http://www.acser.unsw.edu.au/events/space_mining.html (or click on the link at right).