The aim of this extraterrestrial armada largely funded through Nasa's $2.6bn Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative is to survey the moon so that minerals, water and other resources can be extracted to build permanent, habitable bases there. These would later provide a springboard for manned missions to Mars.
We are not trying to block the building of lunar bases. However, there are only a handful of promising sites there and some of these are incredibly precious scientifically. We need to be very, very careful where we build our mines and bases.
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