Odysseus is the first U.S. lander on the Moon in 50 years. The lander is made by private industry. And that makes it more interesting. The builder of that craft is the Intuitive Machines. The purpose of that mission is to act as a pathfinder for the moon missions. The thing is that companies like Space X and other similar actors, including Intuitive Machines, plan to send people to the Moon. And then make commercial operations on Earth's satellites. The Moon could be an excellent place to make things like Helium 3 and antimatter. The Moon observatories that are equipped with lasers can search things like asteroids with noble, and strategic metals. Those systems can use laser spectroscopes to the asteroid's material into vapor. Then the spectroscope sees what kind of elements that material involves. That data can be used to make plans for the targets of the next targets for manned and unmanned missions. The private industry has a big role in the next-generation space projects...