NASA wants to buy moon rocks from entrepreneurs
CNNNew York CNN Business — NASA wants to purchase loads of rocks and dust from private-sector companies that could collect them from the moon, the latest step in the space agency’s decade-long push to commercialize space exploration. NASA noted in its announcement that the goal of the US government is to create policies that will “encourage international support for the public and private recovery and use of resources in outer space.” Spurring private-sector investments in space technology will push science and exploration efforts beyond what only taxpayer money could achieve, the thinking goes. NASA confirming that it would pay companies for moon rock samples establishes an important legal precedent, said Casey Dreier, the chief advocate and a senior policy adviser at the non-profit Planetary Society. The space agency’s new policy could signal to investors that if those companies also wanted to harvest Moon rocks, they’ll be able to make money off those activities.
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