The concepts that I propose, and soon to be published, are years ahead of anything that its being done and developed today. Without wanting to be disrespectful, aerospace engineers are too attached to the concepts of the past, concepts that are not any where near of providing the necessary safety, reliability and comfort for long term, deep space missions... I mean, they are basically a tin can with a 1mmm thick aluminum alloy along with a lot of prayers and hopes that nothing hits it or goes wrong during the mission, not to mention the radiation issue.
My concepts function as if the hole spacecraft is a living being. All the elements of the spacecraft - since the hull to the power source, they all have more than one function and they all actively work with each other in order to provide a fast, highly efficient, secure, healthy and comfortable craft. And with the added bonus, compared with the conventional spacecrafts that are being developed, piece by piece, size by size, its construction and assembly is way more cost effective. Basically it means that I along with the right team and a fraction of the budget that big companies and agencies of the area, could develop build assembly it and starting the prospection and mining operations in a 5 year time frame.
Now you can laugh!... But do you want to bet?

But first things first...
For now the advantage is in the side of the parasites... at least while I am stuck in their shithole...