Why Take Part

Commercial Space Companies:

• The LDC will be a new source of funding for space companies, paying them to develop economy-enabling infrastructure for members.

• LDC members will have lower risks and costs by using shared services, de-confliction rules, and interoperability standards with other members.

• The LDC will greatly expand the market by lowering the barriers for many more nations and companies to operate in space as customers and suppliers.

International Policymakers:

• The LDC’s member contracts operationalize international agreements and make space law more effective by translating general principles into specific, binding, and enforceable terms.

• The LDC is a highly practical and efficient institution for implementing international norms and does not need a new treaty or an international regulatory authority to operate.

Nations with Major Space Programs:

• The LDC bears responsibility for economic development, shifting the burden off government space agencies and allowing them to focus resources on their core mandates (e.g., science, exploration, and inspiration).

Nations without Major Space Programs:

• The LDC is an infrastructure investment, not a space budget appropriation, allowing nations to use already existing investment reserves to develop space capabilities. 

• LDC infrastructure will greatly lower barriers to operating on the Moon, allowing more nations to demonstrate their capabilities and build national prestige.

• The LDC will make stock options available to developing nations and indigenous groups, allowing them to invest more affordably than advanced nations.

Large Commercial Space Companies:

• Large scale infrastructure requires an enormous capital investment that does not yield returns for several decades – and most of the value it creates is externalized. This means ordinary private-sector companies will be far less able to provide major infrastructure independently at a quality comparable to LDC-funded infrastructure.

• Even the largest companies on Earth rely on shared roads, seaports, power, and communications infrastructure. If they had to build all this themselves, it would be too difficult to generate a profit within a time horizon acceptable to their investors. The same is true in space – with the LDC, companies can shift their resources to more profitable business activities.

• Smaller companies will be reluctant to rely on infrastructure provided by a potential competitor in their market, making it difficult for major commercial infrastructure providers to earn their trust.

Rest of Humanity:

• The LDC will enable everyone on earth to directly benefit financially from the space economy by making its shares available on a universally accessible trading platform at a very low minimum investment. 

• LDC shares are an asset that will rise in value proportionally to the overall level of lunar development, enabling the world’s poor to have an equity stake in space.