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| Moon Express competing for Google’s Lunar Xprize worth $30 million (£25 million) |
| 2017-01-16 |
| [INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] A company hoping to extract the Moon’s natural resources has just completed a $20 million financing round. Moon Express, which is based in Silicon Valley, has received a total of $45 million (£37 million) in funding for its efforts a lunar lander. The company is competing for Google’s Lunar Xprize, which will give whichever firm can land a rover on the moon $30 million (£25 million). The winner must travel 500 metres on the Moon’s surface and transmit high-definition pictures back to Earth. Moon Express’s goal is to bring back “precious resources, metals, and moon rocks” to Earth and chief executive Bob Richards, described the space rock as the “unexplored eighth continent”. “Our goal is to expand Earth’s social and economic sphere to the Moon, our largely unexplored eighth continent, and enable a new era of low cost lunar exploration and development for students, scientists, space agencies and commercial interests,” Mr Richards said in a statement, Florida Today reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Interesting numbers. I wonder if creating fanciful recreational islands with dredge pumps isn't more expensive. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-01-16 05:24 |