[processing please hold]

Obviously plenty of minerals of some types, but none economic to mine.

Makes me wonder why they want to go there. No country spends the money it would require to go there without there being some sort of payoff.

[RightWhale]

A country would do it because it demonstrates national competency in hi-tech and the capability is parallel to military competence. It’s all for show and national image. They might talk about tech spin-off, but it’s kind of a lame argument.