Brad Tucker

I mean, it is not as straightforward.

Yes, it's not quite the same scale, but the principles are the same.

So it is going to take time.

Now, the benefit also where I think compared to what happened in the 60s and 70s with the US getting to the moon is it isn't just one group.

It isn't just NASA.

There are many countries working together with NASA and many companies do this.

And what we're starting to see are groups specializing in certain equipment and views.

And that's kind of going to be the wave of the future is a lot of people working on different things, no different than industries here on Earth.

But I do think it's going to take...

Yeah, look, this is kind of the gray area.

There are space treaties that govern a lot of activity, including something called the Moon and Outer Space Treaty.

No one can claim ownership of the moon.

And so it's very clear, and that's very good.

There's a huge amount of discussion, though, about how do you maintain stuff on the moon.

So your equipment is yours.

It is recognized.

But so...

for the past it's only been in the case of scientific exploration all right you have a rover you have a lander and even if you extract samples those samples are yours to keep and everyone's been okay with it every country and that sort of thing this is a different scale and no one's really sure what the answer is if i extract something from the moon let's say i extract water for fuel or i i soil and make it into brick or something like that

Who claims ownership of it?

And in a lot of ways, both answers are complicated.