India successfully landed its Chandrayaan-3 mission on the lunar South Pole, detecting valuable resources like frozen water, aluminum, calcium, iron, titanium, and silicon. The United States, Russia, and China also have ambitions for lunar colonization and resource extraction. While geopolitical rivalries are a concern, international cooperation is necessary for further space exploration and setting up human colonies outside of Earth. The future generation must ensure that the geopolitical rivalries of the earth do not create conflicts in missions outside of it. The article ends with two bands glovers expressing that the moon is only the first step, and all space powers want to establish themselves permanently on the satellite with the ultimate goal of reaching Mars and other places in the solar system.
1. The Indian space research organization, the esro, successfully landed the Chandraylan 3 on the lunar South Pole in August 2023.
2. The Indian mission detected aluminum, calcium, iron, titanium, and silicon on the lunar surface.
3. The most promising resource on the moon is frozen water detected at its poles.
4. Nearly 30 countries signed the Artemis agreements to promote international cooperation in the exploration and civil exploitation of assets found on the moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies.
5. Russia announced it will maintain its cooperation with the United States until 2028 on the international space station and perhaps even until 2030 when the closure of the space station is scheduled.
6. The development of the South Pole of the Moon can become an analogue of the process of development of Antarctica.
7. The Earth cannot survive far from it without cooperating.
8. All space powers want to establish themselves permanently on the moon with the water from its key poles to manufacture necessary fuel right there and use the moon as a shuttle to reach Mars and other places in the solar system.