'Lunar gold rush': NASA wants to mine the moon - E&E News by POLITICO
The moon could become the next stage in the United States' competition with China over resource-rich areas.
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The moon could become the next stage in the United States' competition with China over resource-rich areas.
Nearly two dozen teams from five nations have entered a space engineering challenge to be held in Adelaide next year.
Private companies and governments are reaching for the stars in an effort to ease Earth-bound shortages with space mining.
Countries like China, India, Russia and the U.S. are strong contenders in the space race for extraterrestrial resources.
The NASA Artemis project aims to return Americans to the moon by 2025. NASA's Artemis Program brings landing, living, and exploring on Earth's moon closer to reality, as the third Space Resources Roundtable at the Colorado School of Mines showed institutions, small and large businesses, and international space agencies' growing interest in lunar activities.