The risk financially is $10,000. The risk of equipment failure is high due to the harsh environment and the physical distance between the earth and the moon. So there are no guarantees that your claim marker will make it to the moon’s surface and that the signal it relays will function.

The claimant should enter into this venture with eyes wide open and consider this a legacy purchase with short term ROI being non-existent. Think about this as being an investment in your family’s future in space. Pass down your claim to your heirs so that they may reap the rewards of mining the moon in the future. This isn’t to say that with a renewed focus on the commercial aspects of space through MoonXCom, advances in commercial space travel will not produce rockets that can carry minerals from the moon to earth at a reasonable cost, or that robotic mining equipment won’t advance to be practical in the original claimant’s lifetime, but it is recommended that claimants of today purchase their claims with an eye on their progeny’s future wealth and not their own. This is a long term, generational, investment.