a NASA Research Partnership Center

  
 
 
 
 

 
 
Mission Statement

    The Center for Space Resources (CSR) is a NASA Research Partnership Center based at the Colorado School of Mines, which brings together government, academia, and industry to pursue the development of space technology and exploration activities.  The CSR is dedicated to the human and robotic exploration of space and to the utilization of what we learn to the improvement of our society by developing technologies for space resource extraction, manufacturing in space, and life-support systems for spacecraft and planetary habitats.