Nasa to pay $1 (£0.74) to collect a small sample of rocks from the moon.

Lunar Outpost is among four firms awarded contracts to retrieve lunar regolith, or moon soil, for the US space agency, for a total of $25,001.

Nasa will use the soil in its Artemis programme, which aims to send the next man and a woman to the moon by 2024.

It is also trying to establish a business model for the extraction, sale and use of off-Earth resources.