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What price the moon? How the lunar frontier is shaping up to be the new Wild West

s a flurry of recent news reports have shown, interest in the moon is increasing dramatically as China, India and a number of private companies are racing to establish bases on the moon and to put a lunar space station in orbit around it. Why? Because the moon turns out to have valuable resources needed on Earth – some of them currently in increasingly short supply – and hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in getting at those resources,

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