By Karol Rębisz (Gazeta Wyborcza)
NASA has announced it: it is looking for private companies willing to go to the moon, collect rocks and moon dust there, and bring these materials back to Earth.
The American space agency wants to buy samples of the Moon with a mass between 50 and 500 grams, for which it will pay a price of 15,000 to 25,000 dollars.
NASA relies on private companies
Jim Bridenstine, president of NASA, announced that the agency
"will purchase fragments of lunar soil from a commercial supplier"
.
These samples of lunar materials should make it possible to develop technologies that will make it possible to send manned missions to the Moon, but also to use local raw materials, essential to supply missions to more distant regions, in particular to Mars.
“We will build on what we have learned on and around the Moon to take the next giant leap: sending astronauts to Mars,”
says
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