NASA will pay a dollar for collecting small pieces of lunar rocks.
NASA will pay a dollar to a Colorado company for collecting small pieces of lunar rocks.
Loner Outpost is one of four companies tasked with collecting lunar dust, solid and saturated matter on the moon. The US space agency will pay a total of 00 25,001 to all companies in this regard. NASA will use the soil for its Artism program, which aims to send another man and woman to the moon by 2024. NASA is also trying to develop a business model for extracting extraterrestrial resources and selling them. NASA will use the soil for its Artism program, which aims to send another man and woman to the moon by 2024.
NASA is also trying to develop a business model for extracting extraterrestrial resources and selling them. Other successful bidders include NASA's Meston Space Systems in California, Tokyo's iSpace and its European subsidiary. A Colorado-based robotics firm with a station on the moon will collect fragments of rock from the southern part of the moon.
The company's CEO, Justin Cyrus told the BBC, We plan to send this mission in 2023 but we are working with different companies so that this project may start earlier.
These companies are not greedy for fees. The mission is expected to have a number of scientific benefits, such as allowing companies to extract various deposits from the moon's surface. Mr Cyrus called it a revolutionary thought in social thinking about space exploration.
He says talks are under way with Blue Origin, a space research company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. It should be noted that many other companies are scheduling flights to the moon with him.
Another Japanese bidder, iSpain, will receive 5,000 dollars for collecting material from the northeastern part of the moon in 2022. Astronomer Sullivan says it is important for NASA to have a tradition of a small amount of money, even a dollar.
These companies will be compensated in three stages. Ten per cent compensation will be given for the execution of this work, ten per cent will be given on launch in company space. Eighty percent of the compensation will be paid when NASA verifies the material collected by the company.
The space agency's announcement on Thursday comes at a time when China is also carrying out its mission to collect moon samples. The Chinese robotic spacecraft Cheng Five is currently returning to Earth with samples from the moon.
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