"Company to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon: Turning Talk into Reality"

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Source: Ars Technica
"Company to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon: Turning Talk into Reality"
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Former Blue Origin employees have founded Interlune, a company aiming to extract helium-3 from the lunar surface and sell it on Earth, with $15 million in funding. Helium-3 is rare on Earth but believed to be abundant on the Moon. The company faces challenges in extraction and transportation, but with NASA's Artemis Program investing in lunar exploration, the timing may be right for a lunar mining venture.

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