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NASA selects four companies for Moon material collection as it seeks to set precedent on private sector outer space mining – Yahoo News Australia

NASA has selected the winning candidates that they’ve decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return, from a number of commercial…

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NASA has selected the winning candidates that they’ve decided to tap to collect lunar resources for eventual Earth return, from a number of commercial companies who applied. The four companies all have rides booked on future commercial lunar lander missions, and the agency is using this as a demonstration of what kinds of efficiencies it can realize by piggybacking on private industry for serving its needs and a precedent-setting event for NASA paying private companies to retrieve materials that…

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