Former Blue Origin President Leads Helium-3 Moon Mining Mission
Interlune says helium-3 is expensive enough to justify mining on the Moon.
Credit: Interlune
Harrison Schmitt is the only living member of NASA’s last crewed mission to the Moon: Apollo 17 in 1972. A geologist, Schmitt has not stopped talking for the past 50 years about what he and his fellow Apollo astronauts discovered in the lunar regolith: helium-3. Schmitt, now 88, has teamed up with...
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