Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Creating a cis-lunar economy will take time, hardware, and political willingness to forge a link between the moon and Earth.
(Image credit: Lockheed Martin)

Cashing in on a cis-lunar economy is ballyhooed by space exploration advocates.

 It’s a spillover term stirred up by today’s entourage of moon orbiters and investigative landers that are crossing the great divide of space between the Earth and moon.

But what needs to happen to help spark a cis-lunar economy? More yet, given actions of late, are we headed for entering a tariff-free zone?

Finding: There’s hard work ahead to put in place the needed hardware to sustain and define such a dollar-generating idea.

Taking the “Aquarius Regolith Run,” a Lockheed Martin video game demo showcased at the Space Symposium. But watch out for those crater rims!
Image credit: Barbara David

It turns out that power and day/night operations on the moon – that is, “plug-in and play” lunar equipment — stands out as a must-have if a cis-lunar economy is real not empty oratory.

For more information, go to my new Space.com story – “Can we actually build a thriving economy on and around the moon?” – “I don’t see an inner solar system in which we don’t significantly develop the moon if you’re going to go anywhere.”

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/can-we-actually-build-a-thriving-economy-on-and-around-the-moon