Already this year, NASA plans to begin exploration of the interior of the Moon, according to Reuters.Gerald Sanders, an employee of the National Space Agency, said that work on the extraction of water and oxygen will start on the Moon, and then the development of deposits of iron and rare earth metals will begin.
For the development of the mining industry on the Moon, it is planned to attract commercial investment.
According to a NASA official, a test drilling rig will go to the Moon this summer, and full-scale mining will begin in 2032.