Moon Express Approved for Private Lunar Landing in 2017, a Space First

Space.com ^ | August 3, 2016 09:25am ET | Mike Wall

[Jack Hydrazine]

Like this



and this.

[GraceG]

Strange things on the moon, possible older or currently being used bases and structures not made by natural means...

[Jack Hydrazine]

Can't wait to go to the airport on Mars! I hope they have a Subway sandwich shop there.

[Jack Hydrazine]

“Hotel On The Moon”
by Joe Alley
http://www.broadjam.com/artists/songs.php?artistID=3636&mediaID=109741

[BenLurkin]

[Jack Hydrazine]

Let’s put a bunch of those there, too!

[Jack Hydrazine]

If someone tells me to go jump in a lake I'll gladly do it on Mars!

[Moonman62]

Interesting launch company:

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/missions/commercial/rocket-lab-electron-rutherford-peter-beck-started-first-place/

I notice they haven’t done a test flight yet, but I do hope they are successful.

[Blood of Tyrants]

“d Moon Express, which aims to fly commercial missions to Earth’s nearest neighbor”

Except we have no idea about what the cosmic radiation will do to people.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just need on really big diamond.

[GreenHornet]

The interagency approval process "took some time, not because anybody was against or averse to this," he said. "It's just that we asked questions that had never been asked before, and that had to be addressed and worked out."

What if they just went ahead and made the trip without asking?

[Billthedrill]

Heinlein's Requiem is pretty dang good, too.

[SJSAMPLE]

They could do it if they launched it from another country or from international waters. But that doesn’t mean there wouldn’t be repercussions here in the US when they got back.

[samtheman]

Can you imagine one of Heinlein’s “juvenile” stories where they need “approval” to land on the moon?

I'm outraged by the need for approval. I just read this story here: Scentific American

The interagency approval process "took some time, not because anybody was against or averse to this," he said. "It's just that we asked questions that had never been asked before, and that had to be addressed and worked out."

Here's a question that seems to have never been asked before: how is it any of the government's f*ing business if a private entity goes into space?

Does the government own it all? The entire solar system? The entire galaxy? All the galaxies? The entire universe? The multiverse?

The government is the default owner of all creation?