Some private companies such as Shackleton Energy Company are already asserting their right to own whatever resources they remove and/or beneficiate from the Moon or asteroids though their own effort, risk and investment.
The human element of the project includes the development of an "industrial astronaut corps" that would select for individuals who have many of the characteristics of previous explorers—such as Ernest Shackleton, Edmund Hillary and Lewis and Clark—"bold vision, determination, independence, leadership, execution and capability necessary to undertake a non-terrestrial industrial venture. Those human qualities are very necessary" to what Shackleton intends to do.
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