Stunning Nasa-backed space homes to be ‘printed’ by giant robots on the Moon
is believed to have between one and three million tons of a rare gas known as Helium-3 - enough to powercompany ispace has partnered with lunar extraction firm Magna Petra to harvest Helium-3 on the Moon and deliver it back to Earth.
That means one ton would be worth around $1.26billion - and three million tons would be worth $3.78trillion. The US and China are both vying to be the first to ship astronauts to the Moon - a feat that hasn't been achieved since Apollo 17 in 1972.Visions of humans on the Moon once more has sparked a renaissance for the space race of the 1960s.
The pair are already locked into an Earth-bound tech war, with fist-shaking over computer chips, AI and TikTok, which has somehow erupted into a race for the stars.Under President Xi Jinping, China spent roughly $14billion on its ambitious space programme in 2023, according to Statista.
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