Drill to reach the good stuff (Image: Bryan Versteeg/Deep Space Industries) Moon base from moon dust (Image: ESA/Foster+Partners)
Editorial: “Space gold rush should not be a free-for-all“
FOLLOW the money and you will end up in space. That’s the message from a first-of-its-kind forum on mining beyond Earth.
Convened last week in Sydney by the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, the event brought together mining companies, robotics experts, lunar scientists and government agencies that are all working to make space mining a reality.
The forum comes hot on the heels of the unveiling last year of two private…
