USA plans of mining on Moon.
                     USA Plans of Mining on Moon
Trump’s new plans
• President Donald Trump and his administration are moving ahead 
with plans to mine the moon for valuable regolith. The new 
Artemis Accords, linked ideologically with NASA’s Artemis 
program, are a U.S.-led international agreement about using the 
moon for materials.
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Artemis Accords
• Artemis Accords are meant to help cement both America’s plans 
to put a station on the moon and the role space travel will play in 
international diplomacy in the near and far futures. It’s a proposed 
strategy for establishing neutral zones the administration says will 
prevent diplomatic and commercial disagreements.
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New ‘foreign’ policy?
• The agreement would be the latest effort to cultivate allies around 
NASA’s plan to put humans and space stations on the moon within 
the next decade, and comes as the civilian space agency plays a 
growing role in implementing American foreign policy.
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Lunar-mining allies
• The U.S. hasn’t yet shared the Artemis Accords with its “like-
minded” lunar-mining international allies, including Canada, 
Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and European countries. The 
overall mindset of mining and occupying the moon may seem like 
a contradiction to the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that the U.S. and 
most other countries have signed.
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‘Neutral’ Moon
• Before now, the U.S. has primarily issued policies that apply to U.S. 
citizens and companies only. If the moon follows policies that exist 
for Antarctica, nations could divide the moon into di Chinese and 
American bases must coexist, if uneasily. “Neutral zones” do seem 
like the forerunners to territory claims, which we’ll see in about 10 
or 20 years.
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Safety zones
• The Artemis Accords, named after the Nasa’s new Artemis moon 
program, propose “safety zones” that would surround future 
moon bases to prevent damage or interference from rival 
countries or companies operating in close proximity. The pact 
also aims to provide a framework under international law for 
companies to own the resources they mine.
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Strategic asset
• The Trump administration and other spacefaring countries see 
the moon as a key strategic asset in outer space. The moon also 
has value for long-term scientific research that could enable 
future missions to Mars – activities that fall under a regime of 
international space law widely viewed as outdated.
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Cold war?
• Russia, a major partner with NASA on the International Space 
Station, will not be an early partner, as the Pentagon increasingly 
views Moscow as hostile for making “threatening” satellite 
maneuvers toward US spy satellites in Earth orbit.
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Russia’s warning
• An American “invasion” of the moon could turn it into “another 
Afghanistan or Iraq”, Russia has warned, in a furious response to 
President Trump’s plans to launch a lunar mining project. Dmitry 
Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency, has condemned the 
Artemis accords
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