US company wants to be the first to mine raw materials on the moon. Helium-3 is scarce on Earth but is abundant on the Moon.
Company wants to mine it and sell it on Earth. In 2020, it sought to collect rocks and dirt from the lunar surface and sell them to NASA part of a program designed to help astronauts "live off Earth" NASA and China want to go to the south pole of the moon, where there is water in the form of ice in the craters.