With a surface area nearly four times that of Canada, even a sprawling lunar operation would occupy a tiny sliver of its terrain.īut NASA has already sounded an alarm about what others intend to do. “I think the same rules would apply on the moon.” And if you extract oil from the ocean, you can own the oil,” he said in an interview Tuesday. Nonetheless, “if you extract tuna from the ocean, you can own the tuna.
Bridenstine likened the moon to international waters, which do not fall under sovereign boundaries. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t utilize the resources of the moon,” said Jim Bridenstine, the former NASA administrator who championed the Artemis program, which also includes contributions from space agencies in Europe, Japan and Canada, with a new generation of the Canadarm.Īrtemis space mission to moon ‘a stepping-stone’ to Mars and beyondĬountdown to blast off: What to know as NASA’s Artemis moon mission prepares for space voyage “Nobody can appropriate the moon for national sovereignty. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is seeking to set new footprints in lunar dust, even as China pursues plans to achieve the same. Today, the potential to secure prized resources – and a fear that others, too, are on the hunt for lunar supplies of water and metals – is among the reasons the U.S. At stake is not just the national pride that drove the last space race.
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