This past Spring, NASA paid Seattle-based startup Interlune $6.9 million USD to build hardware that will fly to the Moon, dig up lunar soil, heat it, and then collect data to determine concentrations of Helium-3. The endgame: They want to extract it. But it’s also a resource that Canada already has, and stockpiling it could give us a bargaining chip in future trade talks with U.S. President Trump. However, Prime Minister Carney hasn’t played that card. Why not, and will he? Bill Carroll chats with Chris Cassin, the CEO of Zero Point Cryogenics.