Billionaire Teams Up With NASA To Mine the Moon

schwit1 writes: Moon Express, a Mountain View, California-based company that's aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step closer toward that lofty goal. Earlier this year, it became the first company to successfully test a prototype of a lunar lander at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The success of this test—and a series of others that will take place later this year—paves the way for Moon Express to send its lander to the moon in 2016. Moon Express conducted its tests with the support of NASA engineers, who are sharing with the company their deep well of lunar know-how. The NASA lunar initiative—known as Catalyst—is designed to spur new commercial U.S. capabilities to reach the moon and tap into its considerable resources.

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Considerable resources?

[Art Popp]

Have you seen how much rock we have down here already?

Re:Considerable resources?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's not much to do in space.

This is true, if you are using the word "do" as a euphemism for "have sex with". Taken literally, however, the statement is myopic and unimaginative. For example, since there isn't much to "do" in space, I think we ought to start populating the surrounding systems with space hookers.