Nasa signs $1 contract to collect moon rocks

NASA announced yesterday that it will pay only one dollar to Colorado-based Lunar Outpost to collect small amounts of material from the moon’s surface.

The company is one of three companies that NASA has chosen for a “low-cost moon resource collection program” announced earlier this year, and two other companies, California-based Masten Space Systems and Tokyo-based iSpace, are spending very little to create a small collection of moon soil, according to Good News, quoted by CNN. One dollar will be paid to Lunar Outpost.

The company offered $1 to sign a contract with NASA, prompting NASA to work with the company to complete the mission in the moon’s resource collection program.

Lunar Outpost is one of three companies that NASA on Thursday named to carry out the mission by paying only $1. To do so, Boston has signed a $15,000 contract with NASA and is the time of its mission in 2023, and the other company, iSpace, has signed a $5,000 contract to do so, and the mission is 2022 and 2023.

“Companies will collect samples and then provide us with visual evidence and other data collected, and then we will pay them and collect them,” NASA Vice President Mike Gold told reporters at a press conference.