Colorado School of Mines is planning to offer graduate degrees in space resources starting in 2018, and Fox31 Denver was among the local media to recently feature the first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary program. From the story: “In recent years there has been a growing interest by space agencies and the private sector in resources found beyond our planet, such as water, gases, minerals, and metals, to be used in space instead of launching them from Earth,” says Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Mines Center for Space Resources. “This often-called ‘living-off-the-land’ approach has been ....