Science

I’m sure there were expectations of findings in lunar ice that would have provided significant info, but there’s not much of a pipeline set up to bring back much water from the moon, even if they do find any.

Why don’t they look for iridium, or something like that? It is apparently found in pieces of asteroids, many of which have hit the moon, and it is worth something like $5000 an ounce, so even small quantities found can make such an undertaking able to pay for itself.