General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNASA says it will pay private companies to gather Moon rocks
Link to tweet
?s=21
Universe Today
@universetoday
NASA says it will pay private companies to gather Moon rocks - https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09/nasa-says-it-will-pay-private-companies-to-gather-moon-rocks/ by @SciGuySpace
underpants
(182,904 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)They will take a pay cut and put up with all kinds of BS to go to the moon. The money saved from their salary and other economies will go straight to the billionaires who see space exploration as just another profit center.
A perfect example of privatization.
yonder
(9,678 posts)"Earth First!
we'll mine the other planets later"
It doesn't sound like much and it's supposed to be for the advancement of science but this is how this shit starts. Put a profit motive into what boils down to mining operations on a basically virgin moon, as if they're not happy with the level of environmental damage that resource extraction industries have caused and are responsible for here.
Who's accountable when something doesn't quite work out right? What could go wrong?
Montelimar
(83 posts)THE US SPACE FORCE!!!!1111
duh duh duh duh
Whatever happened to THAT?
They never responded to my application to become a Space Cadet.