Moon

The Moon appears in Is the moon (and its resources) up for grabs? as the destination where renewed human spaceflight, resource interest, and international rule-making converge. The episode says NASA’s Artemis 2 could send humans around the Moon for the first time in more than five decades, while China aims to land humans there by 2030.

The source frames the Moon as a governance and infrastructure test, not only an exploration target. Because states cannot claim lunar territory but may exploit resources, the Moon becomes a practical case for Lunar Resource Governance, Space Resource Extraction, safety zones, and the stable energy systems behind Lunar Nuclear Power.

Connections

• NASA, Artemis 2, and Artemis Accords - U.S.-led lunar mission and governance context.
• China and Russia - geopolitical context for lunar diplomacy.
• Sadia Pekkanen - expert source for the episode’s legal and policy framing.
• Space Economy Infrastructure and Applied Astrobiology - broader off-Earth infrastructure and habitability branches.
• Helium-3 and Lunar Nuclear Power - resource and energy branches tied to sustained lunar activity.