Private company intends to be the first to mine the moon

"We intend to be the first to deliver, and support those customers," he says. NASA might want to be a customer as well. In 2020, it said it was looking for companies to collect rocks and dirt from the lunar surface and sell them to NASA as part of a technology development program that would eventually help astronauts "live off the land". In a tweet, then-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote that the agency wanted "to establish the regulatory certainty to extract and trade space resources". NASA has also said it is in a space race to the moon with China….