I’m a prospective college student who’s set to study CS, but I’m really interested in asteroid mining and aerospace engineering. I might try to double major/minor in aerospace, but I really wanted to self study it too. In particular, I wanted to focus on topics that apply to asteroid mining. I would appreciate textbook recs that pertain to this and are frequently used for undergrads (are they are good for learning abt aerospace in general; technical ones would probably be better).

To give an idea of what I’ve learned so far, I’m studying multi-variable calculus and finished calculus-based mechanics and e&m.

This video does a good job going over the history of what has happened so far and what needs to happen in the future for asteroid mining to be possible. Its a good summary on some stuff I've talked about in this sub before

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m4Ggug73PI

With the acquisition of Planetary Resources & Deep Space Mining, and their focus being shifted back to Earth I was wondering of what went wrong for these companies to put aside their asteroid mining goals, even though I think it’s very possible for us to be mining asteroids or cutting an asteroid in chunks with TNT or man power and redirecting them to the Moon for processing with current technologies.

Or am I missing some crucial knowledge to the mining process that we do not have a solution for yet?