![]() The payment to be done by NASA, however, will be exclusively for the lunar regolith. With this, the US space agency claims to have created “a full and open competition, not limited to U.S. NASA has cleared that it may make “one or more awards” around the task. In the future, NASA will think of ways to retrieve the transferred property back to Earth. ![]() NASA aims to complete this process of retrieval and transfer of ownership of the resources before 2024. ![]() “After ownership transfer, the collected material becomes the sole property of NASA for our use,” NASA clarifies. Once everything is cross-checked, an “in-place” transfer of ownership of the lunar regolith or rocks will take place to handover the material to NASA. The space agency will also require data that identifies the collection location. NASA Artemis Mission (Representative Image: NASA) It outlines that a company will “collect a small amount of Moon “dirt” or rocks from any location on the lunar surface.” The company will have to show the proof of the collection as well as the material collected through images. As per a blog post, the space agency has released a “solicitation for commercial companies to provide proposals for the collection of space resources.”įor now, there are specific goals that NASA is looking to meet with such an offer. The new initiative by NASA is a critical one in the field of space exploration, having the potential to set up a whole new marketplace around the globe. The US space agency aims to collaborate with private companies from across the globe which can bring in lunar dirt and rocks for it to study. Instead of launching its own lunar probes for any research material to be collected from Earth’s natural satellite, NASA is now turning to private companies to get the job done.
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