"Today's race to the moon has little to do with flags and footprints," the report states. More to the point, the recently published report observes that lunar resources - especially ice-derived hydrogen and oxygen, which can provide spacecraft propellant for civil, commercial and national security applications - are key for access to asteroid resources and Mars, and to enable overall space commercial development. ( Lagrange points are gravitationally stable spots in space where probes can "park," remaining in place without expending much fuel.) Race to the moon "As space activities expand beyond geosynchronous orbit, the first nation to establish transportation infrastructure and logistics capabilities serving GEO and cislunar space will have superior ability to exercise control of cislunar space and in particular the Lagrange points and the resources of the moon," the report says.
In terms of cislunar (Earth-moon) space and the moon itself, there is a need to control critical "choke points." faces major challenges and inflection points in the final frontier. The summary report explains that the U.S. The mind-meld meeting was staged by NewSpace New Mexico, the Defense Innovation Unit, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the United States Space Force. The July 2020 report, which you can find here, was based on a virtual workshop that brought together more than 150 thought leaders from industry, government and academia.
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