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October 5th, 2025
Image credit: NASA
A front and center cause by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is promoting and prompting a case for an Earth-Cislunar-Moon economy.
In some quarters it’s all blue sky yammering. On the other hand, there does appear to be growing support for making a business case for mining resources on the Moon.
A recent study shouldered by DARPA has laid out a step-by-step process that could enable an economic link between Earth and our celestial next door neighbor, the Moon.
Image credit: Air University Press
Industrial makeover
But how real is the promise of giving the Moon an industrial makeover?
“If there is commercial value, at least based on what we now know, I would argue it’s the Moon’s subsurface,” explains the editor of The Commercial Lunar Economy Field Guide: a vision for industry on the Moon in the next decade.
To learn more, go to my new Space.com story – “New DARPA ‘field guide’ looks for ways to jump-start a Moon economy” – at:
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