Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far, far away... A NASA depiction of Artemis astronauts on the moon. A dollar can’t buy you a cup of coffee but that’s what NASA intends to pay for some moon rocks A dollar may not buy much these days, not even a cup of coffee. But apparently it’s enough to buy a small sample of rocks and soil from the moon. NASA announced December 3rd, that several companies had won contracts to mine the moon and turn over small samples to the space agency for a small fee. In one case, a company called Lunar Outpost bid $1 for the work, a price NASA jumped at after deciding the Colorado-based robotics firm had the technical ability to deliver. “You’d be surprised at what a dollar can buy you in space,” Mike Gold, NASA’s acting associate administrator for international and interagency relations, said in a call with reporters. But the modest financial incentives are not the driver of the program. Nor to a large extent is the actual lunar soil. NASA is asking