{"id":217313,"date":"2025-07-07T14:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use-2"},"modified":"2025-07-07T14:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:10:35","slug":"mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use-2","title":{"rendered":"Mining the Moon begins: US firm\u2019s robot to extract rare helium-3 and launch payloads back to Earth for futuristic energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mining-the-moon-begins-us-firms-robot-to-extract-rare-helium-3-and-launch-payloads-back-to-earth-for-futuristic-energy-use4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a bold move that could transform the future of clean energy and quantum computing, a Seattle-based startup, Interlune, is taking the first steps toward mining the Moon for a rare isotope called helium-3. This new venture has the potential to challenge the boundaries of technology, as well as the frameworks for space exploration and international resource management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bold move that could transform the future of clean energy and quantum computing, a Seattle-based startup, Interlune, is taking the first steps toward mining the Moon for a rare isotope called helium-3. This new venture has the potential to challenge the boundaries of technology, as well as the frameworks for space exploration and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}