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How a Greenland mine is becoming vital to NASA’s moonbase plans

NASA’s Artemis program has a goal of establishing a permanent base on the moon before 2040. “I hadn’t realized how soon these plans were scheduled to take place,” Bent Olsvig Jensen, who is now selling anorthosite to NASA, said. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

To build anything on the Moon, a mineral found in Greenland is needed, so NASA, ESA, and universities across the world are buying more and more of it.