Space Symposium Media Briefing

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson presents Justin Cyrus, CEO, Lunar Outpost of Golden, Colorado a check for $0.10 during an event to introduce media to three local Colorado companies and university partners that help make NASA’s missions possible, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, during the 36th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Lunar Outpost is one of four companies that will collect space resources and transfer ownership to NASA; Lunar Outpost proposed collection for $1 following arrival of a lander to the lunar South Pole in 2023 and is on track to accomplish this a year early as part of the Intuitive Machines 2 Mission in 2022. They recently passed their first milestone and is the first of the four proposals selected to do so, and will receive a payment of $0.10. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)