If we sold areas of the moon, we’d have companies up there mining that sucker in no time at all.
I believe there are treaties in place which basically say you can’t sell the moon. But I think we should tear those up. Get government out of the way and watch entrepreneurs solve all the problems.
Elon Musk goal is to mine & process rare metals on the Moon to pay for the Mars trip and exploration.
Thia is my own comment, but I would suspect mining and processing metals on Mars also. I remember reading that the moon rocks that were returned to earth had minute traces of metals not found in the periodic tables. But I’ve never found any article recently or from the Apollo 11 and 17 days to confirm.