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mighty_spaceminWhen disaster strikes an asteroid mining colony, who can the trapped miners call for help? Nobody! That's why only the bravest and most resourceful of individuals can ever become Mighty Space Miners, the hardworking pilots, scientists and technicians who keep earth supplied with priceless metals and isotopes from deep-space asteroid mines in the year 2060. Mighty Space Miners is also the title of a stunning animated film that accurately depicts what happens when a military satellite triggers a disaster of catastrophic proportions on a remote asteroid colony designed to literally catch Haley's Comet by the tail! Told from the point of view of Ushikawa, the only youngster living on the colony, Mighty Space Miners documents the surviving colonists desperate battle to survive in a hostile environment in which every moment carries the possibility of instant death by fire, cold, radiation or explosive decompression, and where the nearest outside assistance is literally millions of miles away! It's adventure on an epic scale, with nail-biting tension as the colonists must cope with a world turned literally inside out, in which neither the ground below one's feet or the air one breathes are ever guaranteed, and with a runaway nuclear reactor that threatens to turn the entire asteroid into a miniature sun in a matter of hours! A soaring tribute to the spirit of exploration and the ultimate pioneers, Mighty Space Miners is scientifically accurate in every detail and has long been a "dream project" for producer Takao Asaga; now the dream has been realized with brilliant animation by director Umanosuke Iida.