Moon Mining, once the fodder of science fiction, a new company is making a big bet that the world

will need the natural resources plentiful on the Moon. Interloon is just emerging from stealth this week. Four years in the

making, the startup was founded by two alum of Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, former

President Rob Meerson, and former Chief Engineer Garyye, as well as Apollo 17 astronaut

Harrison Schmidt, one of the last Americans to walk on the moon.

Meyerson says his entire career has been leading up to this moment.

First off is Artemis.

The billions that are being spent means that both from the government and from commercial

companies, it means that the infrastructure is there to go to the moon, move around the moon, power and communications.

All that infrastructure is being built and it's something that we can rely on.

Number two, the use cases are there. The quantum computing, superconducting quantum

computing needs the resource we're going after which is helium three and helium three is

plentiful in space and plentiful on the moon but not so very very scarce on Earth.

Interloon recently closed an 18 million dollar seed funding round,

led by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's firm, 776.

And it comes as lunar missions begin to ramp.

Most recently, Interloon Partner Intuitive Machines,

which made history with its first commercial lunar lander last month.

On this episode, Meerson lays out the strategy for what is literally a moonshot and why Helium 3 is such a valuable resource.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space.

Joining me now Rob Meerson, the former president of Blue Origin, also the

founder and CEO of Delaloon, and now as well also the founder

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