Who cares. We’ve got our own rock and soil samples and we’ve had them for sometime now. More samples will show much the same thing, the moon is a rock and little else. Any minerals, ores or water that MIGHT be on the moon will be so ludicrously expensive to mine and recover that’ll it’ll be decades at least before it’s feasible to get them.
We’ve got our own rock and soil samples and we’ve had them for sometime now. More samples will show much the same thing, the moon is a rock and little else
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Those samples only come form one area of the moon - its a big place with varying geology. Plus, many of the samples have never been looked at and many others given away.
The idea is to use what is one the moon to make things on the moon - not return them to Earth. Judging expenses by current rocket tech is silly.