It's worth $20M per kg and is abundant only on the Moon. This company has plans to mine it.

A Seattle-based startup wants to redefine the concept of a Harvest Moon.

Interlune, launched in 2020 by former Blue Origin executives, develops excavation equipment and technology to mine the moon for an extremely valuable and rare helium isotope — and already has customers lining up for the ambitious mission, including the U.S government.

Extremely Valuable, Extraordinarily Rare

"At $20 million dollars a kilogram, helium-3 is only resource in the universe that is priced high enough to warrant going to space and bringing it back to Earth," Interlune cofounder and CEO Rob Meyerson told Newsweek . "And we felt like with the ability to buy services, we can make the economics work and that's where we are today."

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