A piece of news which I read today alerted me to the fact that now we have private enterprises which are planning to go to the moon, and one has already been given permission to travel in the middle of 2017.
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A private company has managed necessary permission and is set to lift off for the Moon towards the middle of next year. The aptly named Moon Express will take off with a few engineers and over 20 entrepreneurs on board. I can only presume these guys are going on a survey of some sort, to ascertain what could be exploited commercially.
Though not very clear in the report in question, a reference to mining has me think that if they are spending money to go there, they would have figured out how to profit from it as there seems to be new regulations to look into that.
A portion of the article reads.
Moon Express will ride a purchased rocket, land on lunar soil and thanks to recent regulations, will be able to keep what they mine
But the real intention of the whole exercise comes through the statement of Naveen Jain, co-founder of Moon Express, who has been quoted as follows:
On the Moon is enough Helium-3 to solve Earth’s energy crisis. Bringing back Moon rock will make it even rarer than diamonds and that means it will have the potential to disrupt the gems industry here. Lovers once asked for the Moon and well, you’ll have it soon. Like I said, this is just the start. On Earth we’re running out of space but when you look up, all you see is real estate. We were always meant to be a multi-planetary society and these are the early days of something phenomenal.
I had been under the impression that travelling to the moon is an expensive job but the facts given in the article was shocking in that, the military budgets of some countries are many times bigger than the cost to travel to the moon, and now most can afford it, including private companies out to make some profit out of this as well.
I have the link to the article below and I would ask you to read it too as I was fascinated by the sales talk, which might be a precursor to the way things are marketed in the future. And at this rate, we can be assured that humans will have a base on the moon one day!
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