Moon Express has transferred the flight to the moon in 2018
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At the end of 2017, the company Moon Express promised to start on the moon your ship, thus becoming the first private company to plant the lander on the lunar surface. Unfortunately, the launch had to be postponed to 2018, but the management of the company the less ambitious did not. Guys are going to not only be the first privateers to reach the satellite of the Earth, but to colonize the moon, build the first settlement.
Naveen Jain, CEO, said in an interview with CNBC, Moon Express became the first U.S. company to receive permission to lunar landing. Moreover, the engineers of the startup to participate in the competition Google Lunar XPRIZE, the terms of which will win first «palanisamy» private company, which after planting will send the data to Earth. The prize Fund is $ 20 million, and the results are going to take in March 2018.
So time for the flight in any case is not so much, but Moon Express is not dreaming of winning the competition announced by the American search giant. You guys have better things to do — accustomed on the moon, they plan to start mining, which will then be forwarded to Land for sale. To resource extraction was faster at the surface of the moon are going to build residential colonies, having a permanent presence.
Moon Express plans to Fly rockets Rocket Lab, which recently announced the launch of the carrier rocket.
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