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Moon mining startup Interlune wants to start digging for helium-3 by 2030


A startup called Interlune — the founders of which include former Blue Origin top employees and an Apollo 17 astronaut — plan to send a harvester to the moon to collect material for the surface and extract helium-3 for use on Earth.

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