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Technology tamfitronics SAN FRANCISCO – Without context, Interlune’s plan to extract Helium-3 from lunar regolith to fulfill terrestrial demand sounds improbable. Even Interlune co-founder and chief technology officer Gary Lai was skeptical initially.“Then, I started doing engineering analysis and we started talking to customers,” Lai, former Blue Origin chief architect, told SpaceNews. “It took probably six months before I realized this was a real thing, and something that no serious organization was going after.”Seattle-based Interlune was founded in 2020 by Lai, former Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson, Apollo 17 astronaut and geologist Harrison Schmitt, Indra Hornsby, former Blacksky and Spaceflight Industries general counsel, and James Antifaev, former Spaceflight director for new and emerging markets.In a Sept. 10 blog post, Lai reveals details of Interlune’s plan for robotic collection and automated processing of regolith. Supplying Helium-3...