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NASA is not yet considering the option that the first missions to create a lunar base will be completely private, Carlos Garcia-Galan, head of the agency’s lunar base program, told RIA Novosti. “From our point of view of the lunar economy, it would certainly be ideal and wonderful if we could immediately form a market environment - one where the industries would function autonomously and introduce innovations at an early stage. But this will not happen,” he said, answering RIA Novosti’s question about the possibility of creating the first lunar base by private companies. Garcia-Galan explained that NASA will use commercial opportunities where the market has already been formed, primarily in the field of launches, and in the future - communication and landing modules.