We applaud the lunar base vision laid out by NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on March 24. Placing this stake in the lunar regolith is long overdue. What is missing from […]

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NASA’s Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium 2026 Spring Meeting will take place on April 28 at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC; and on April 29-30 at the […]

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We live in a brand new era for lunar activities. With over 100 payloads from around the globe planned to visit the Moon by 2030, our closest natural satellite will […]

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On May 5, 2025, Interlune — a Seattle-based startup — announced a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE): they’ll deliver helium-3, harvested from the moon, to Earth […]

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In the American economy, property rights are so fundamental to commercial activities that we often take them for granted. Without these fundamental tenets of society, development and commerce would be […]

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Former NASA Administrator and LogiQ co-president Mike Griffin framed it best: “the question about the vision for space exploration boils down to whether we want to incorporate the solar system in […]

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