The Moon Express MX-1E Lander Is Heading for the Moon or Bus

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Google can’t resist a moon shot, but this one is literal: A decade ago, the company announced the Google Lunar X Prize—$20 million for the first private firm to build a robot that can soft-land on the surface of the moon, travel 500 meters, and beam hi-def video back to Earth. Everywhere we look space technology is back at the forefront of human development. It's good to see us branch out again and reach for the moon and planets.

Bob Richards, a self-described “space entrepreneur” and Moon Express’ cofounder and CEO, envisions a future in which the moon is mined for resources—not necessarily for export back to Earth† but to power further space travel, using Luna as a launching point. (Moon water could provide the hydrogen and oxygen needed to make rocket fuel, for example.)
 
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Pretty sure the hd footage is for space porn and not fueling or mining. All tech is boosted by porn.
 
I hope they succeed. Space should belong to the most daring privateers who will take the risks and head out there. Governments may have discovered America, but the private companies and normal citizens are what built up this half of the globe in the last four centuries. Governments have taken the first steps into space but once the private companies and normal people begin to live and work there, that is when we will finally move off this planet.
 
Make sure they land the thing near the US flag so we can show the conspiracy nuts.
 
If they can't make it to the Moon they're going to go after a bus? What is this, a sequel to the movie Speed?
 
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