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A number of media sources have reported that NASA is intending to ask for $100 million to start a new mission to snag an asteroid and bring it to an orbit around the moon for closer examination. However new information has come to light concerning a top secret program embarked on by the Obama administration to acquire space resources to further its various programs, such as health care reform and infrastructure construction.

It seems that the X-37B, a top secret military spacecraft that has been conducting orbital missions, has carried a space telescope into low Earth orbit with a number of sensors that are meant to detect Earth approaching asteroids that may be backed with precious resources. Late last year, an asteroid, dubbed Midas, was discovered.

Midas is apparently a 1 kilometer in diameter asteroid that has a specific feature that thus far was only supposed by scientific theory. It contains a great deal of platinum and other rare materials. But the platinum surrounds a carbon core that scientists theorize has been rendered into a gigantic diamond from billions of years of pressure and heat. The estimated value of the resources of Midas is about $23 trillion dollars.

The Obama administration means to divert Midas into an orbit around the moon and to contract with a commercial asteroid mining firm to extract its resources and, gradually so as not to spark inflation, sell the material on the open market. The theory is that even with the share that the private company will garner, a future United States president would have enough money to fund universal health care and a massive infrastructure construction project without adding to the deficit.

The last part of the scheme is already getting rumblings from congressional Republicans, who insist that any revenues to come from asteroid mining should be used to pay down the national debt, currently approaching $17 trillion. Political observers suggest that this may constitute the defining issue of the next presidential election.