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Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017

Posted by samzenpus on from the to-the-moon dept.

merbs writes: If all goes according to plan, the world's first private lunar mission will be launched just two years from now. SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit, has secured a launch contract with Spaceflight Industries, and will aim to land a rover on the moon in the second half of 2017. It's the first such launch contract to be verified by the $30 million Google Lunar XPrize competition. Another group called Moon Express has signed a deal with New Zealand-based company, Rocket Lab, to launch and put a lander on the lunar surface 2017.

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  1. A Rover? by MagickalMyst · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is the 21st century. Let's send a human there instead.

    I nominate Mark Zuckerburg.

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    Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
  2. Re: Jews In Space! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And getting their spacecraft in orbit with technology perfected by NAZIs.

    Oy! The irony! THE IRONY!