As India's Chandrayaan-3 makes its final approach to the lunar surface, Saurabh Todi and Aditya Ramanathan take a step back to consider why governments and companies have become interested in going to the Moon after a gap of five decades. Does the Moon really offer us mineral riches? And can great powers learn to cooperate on another celestial body when they struggle to get along on Earth?

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