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Inside the world's deepest caves

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Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa.

Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth's deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an autonomous robot for studying Jupiter's moon Europa.

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Bill Stone

Explorer, inventor, outer space dreamer

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Engineer and daredevil cave explorer Bill Stone is obsessed with discovery -- on Earth and beyond.

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