NASA assessed the prospects of creating private bases on the Moon

NASA does not currently believe that the first missions to establish a base on the lunar surface can be private. This was announced on May 30 by Carlos Garcia-Galan, head of the NASA lunar base program.

"From our point of view on the lunar economy, it would certainly be ideal and wonderful if we could immediately create a market environment where industries would operate autonomously and innovate at an early stage. But that's not going to happen," he told RIA Novosti.

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