Following that, as the world’s reliance on satellites for Earth observation and telecommunications grew, the commodity was information. They proposed that wealth would be the commodity driving space exploration in the next era. Companies, nonprofits and space agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, are planning lunar and orbital habitats. Startups are developing vehicles for space tourism, and financing research and technology to mine the moon and asteroids for rare earth elements and precious metals. Out in space, however, we meet with different gravity levels.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 17, 2019 14:48 UTC