Sentence examples for mining the moon from inspiring English sources

Five years ago, the founder of dotcom search giant InfoSpace set his sights on actual space, creating Moon Express, a startup with the then outlandish goal of mining the moon for minerals.

Soon, he predicted, we would be mining the moon.

To some, it means mining the moon for helium or platinum.

This is a job that makes about as much sense to my father as mining the moon for cheese.

A graduate student at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences speculated online about whether it was worth mining the moon for rare earths.

Christopher Barnatt, professional futurist and author of The Next Big Thing: From 3D Printing to Mining the Moon, says history shows us that if governments such as Luxembourg's get behind asteroid mining, the space industry will deliver on its promise.

He has also advocated a $20 billion prize to the first group to fly a human to Mars and back, and has supported earthlings mining on the moon - an idea mocked by Romney in December.

Rocket Lab has a deal with San Francisco company Moon Express, which (you guessed it) wants to mine the moon for precious metals and gases.

There was the usual guff in Mr Bush's announcement about using materials mined on the moon to make rocket fuel and air for longer-range expeditions.

And later this century, giant robotic fabricators may build vast lightweight structures floating in space -- gossamer-thin radio reflectors or solar energy collectors, for instance -- using raw materials mined from the moon or asteroids.

Read more stories like this: Rather than desecrate the Arctic should business mine the moon?