NASA’s Apollo science team showed that the mineral resources available on the lunar surface are not only adequate to support an advanced industrial infrastructure on the Moon, but will extend toward Low Earth Orbit with fuel and construction materials and may reach terrestrial markets with electricity, fusion energy fuel and high-vacuum manufactured products.

Some important early lunar products could include:
  Rocket Fuel
  Oxygen (atmospheric or fuel grade)
  Water (available at the lunar poles)
  Titanium and Metallurgical Steels
  Helium-3 (an advanced fusion energy source)
  Glass and Ceramic Composites
  Silicon Photovoltaic Cells (solar-electric converters)

LEDA believes that these and many other products will form the cornerstone of an expanding lunar economy. Near-term, lunar-related commercial opportunities include heavy-lift transportation elements, the development of critical technologies in areas such as mineral processing and manufacturing, and the creation of necessary surface infrastructure elements (habitation and power components). Resources and expertise are needed in each of these areas.