Miners played a big role in the Jupiter Mining Corporation, mining asteroids and planetoids under dangerous conditions for reasonable pay. Alongside the miners worked engineers, mineral geologists, machine operatives and a whole range of support crew. In-between missions the miners and "Astros" typically took full advantage of getting off their ships that they have been in for long periods of time and taking planet-leave to enjoy and go crazy in the night clubs and bars. All the miners aboard the JMC mining vessel Red Dwarf were killed in the radiation leak incident.