The vast challenge of space, frigid and airless, lured 100 engineers and entrepreneurs to Sunnyvale recently to dream about using extraterrestrial manufacturing and mining projects to pave the way for what may be the final migration of our species.

"We're talking about opening the space frontier to human colonization," said Gary Hudson, an organizer of the Space Manufacturing conclave held last weekend at NASA Ames Research Center.

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