I thought this topic deserved its own thread. There’s a LOT going on wrt Moon exploration and investment. LUNR has a drone ship on the surface always and is sending another soon.
Small satellites are mapping the lunar surface with its version of GPS called PNT.
One company is going to send a constellation of off world data centers in lunar orbit , just in case we need to keep the keys to the car locked up.
I own a few companies connected to the Moon so far: LUNR, SIDU, a photonics company BKSY, LHX and in an ETF, LMT and GD.
Long term, say ten years, the Moon is going to mapped like Google Earth. 
I imagine the profitability is going to be sky high.
The Artemis program is also very exciting:
From Grog3: asked about who is putting the pieces in place.
NASA is the mastermind, orchestrating the effort from its headquarters and facilities like Kennedy Space Center, where the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft are prepped. The SLS, a heavy-lift rocket, is built by Boeing (core stage) with Aerojet Rocketdyne (engines), while Lockheed Martin crafts Orion, the crew capsule designed for deep space.
For the lunar lander, NASA tapped private companies through its Human Landing System (HLS) contracts. SpaceX is developing a version of its Starship, a fully reusable spacecraft, to ferry astronauts from lunar orbit to the surface. Blue Origin, leading a “National Team” with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper, is working on its Blue Moon lander. Dynetics, a Leidos subsidiary, was also in the mix but lost out in earlier rounds—though commercial competition keeps evolving.
The Gateway, that lunar-orbiting outpost, involves multiple hands: Northrop Grumman is building the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) module, while Maxar Technologies handles the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE). International partners are pitching in too—the European Space Agency (ESA) is providing Orion’s service module and parts of Gateway, Japan’s JAXA is contributing habitat components, and Canada’s CSA is supplying a robotic arm, Canadarm3.
On the ground, thousands of engineers, technicians, and scientists across NASA centers—like Johnson Space Center for crew training and Marshall for rocket testing—keep the gears turning. Smaller firms and subcontractors, from Intuitive Machines to United Launch Alliance, fill niches like lunar rovers and launch support.
It’s a sprawling coalition—government muscle, corporate innovation, and global teamwork—racing to stitch together the tech and logistics for a lunar comeback. Delays and budget fights slow things down, but these are the folks building the Artemis machine, piece by piece.
