There were various prices listed when I tried to determine the cost to lift a pound into orbit, but I settled on $1200. That’s low Earth orbit, so I’d imagine if you were going to the moon with that pound, it would be a bit more. And they’ve been lying to us with those models of the Earth they showed us in grade school with the moon right next to it. The moon is roughly 240,000 miles away. The Earth has a diameter of roughly 8,000 miles. The diameter of the Earth goes into that distance thirty times. That is one heck of a long way to ship that one pound. We’re going to have fabulous amounts of materials (in their raw and unusable state) on the moon but whatever we ship there to mine it, and everyone knows how light weight mining equipment is, has to go from low Earth orbit to high Earth orbit across the distance of the entire Earth thirty times and then LAND on the moon. You then start mining, refining, and fabricating...and then what? Ship it back and accidentally drop it on Seatle?
We haven’t even touched the stuff at the bottom of the Ocean. The only reason we don’t have all the cheap minerals we want right here is because various environmental groups have made it illegal to touch them. Are you saying it’s worth an unbelievable fortune to go to the moon to get stuff we could have here for relatively pennies because we can’t fight environmental crazies? Okay, got it.
I read that is was $10,000 a pound when NASA began launching the shuttles in the 90s.