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From Pella to the moon: Vermeer Corp. & a Seattle company unveil a lunar excavator prototype

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Pella, IA & Seattle, WA — An Iowa industrial equipment manufacturer took a giant leap in the effort to harvest natural resources from space. Pella-based Vermeer Corp. and Interlune, a Seattle, Washington-based natural resources company, unveiled a full-scale prototype of a lunar excavator earlier this month. According to a news release, Vermeer built the excavator, which is “designed to ingest 100 metric tons of Moon dirt, or regolith, per hour …
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KJAN broke the news in on Sunday, May 18, 2025.
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