Travel tours to Moon with wife for $1.4bn by Golden Spike Company
A team of former NASA leaders started with a private company to send two people to the Moon for $ 1.4 billion (£ 871m).
Golden Spike Company says it will existing rocket and capsule technology to use, and will launch a first goal for the end of this decade.
The company is one of the many new private firms in hopes success Space X, which has sailed cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) to follow.
The U.S. was the first and only country to the moon in 1960.
But costs and declining interest has prevented another moon mission. U.S. President Barack Obama planned NASA back to the moon, said the United States had already been there.
Golden Spike, run by former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern, says it seeks to offer assistance to the governments of other countries - such as South Africa, South Korea and Japan - expect interest in scientific research or national prestige.
"It's not about being first. It's about joining the club," he said Wednesday. "We're kind of cleaning up what NASA did in the 1960s. We are a commodity of the 2020s to do."
odds against
The company says it expects about 15 to 20 launches do everything.
Golden Spike is full of space veterans: Chairman, Apollo-era flight director Gerry Griffin, who once head of the Johnson Space Center.
Advisers are former Space Shuttle commander and manager, former UN Ambassador Bill Richardson, engineer-writer Homer Hickam as Hollywood directors and former House Speaker and space enthusiast Newt Gingrich.
But, said Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who tracks the worldwide launches, the Associated Press that much of the new space companies will fail before anything is built.
"This is probably not the one who will look like his," Mr. McDowell said, referring Golden Spike is the hefty price tag.
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A team of former NASA leaders started with a private company to send two people to the Moon for $ 1.4 billion (£ 871m).
Golden Spike Company says it will existing rocket and capsule technology to use, and will launch a first goal for the end of this decade.
The company is one of the many new private firms in hopes success Space X, which has sailed cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) to follow.
The U.S. was the first and only country to the moon in 1960.
But costs and declining interest has prevented another moon mission. U.S. President Barack Obama planned NASA back to the moon, said the United States had already been there.
Golden Spike, run by former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern, says it seeks to offer assistance to the governments of other countries - such as South Africa, South Korea and Japan - expect interest in scientific research or national prestige.
"It's not about being first. It's about joining the club," he said Wednesday. "We're kind of cleaning up what NASA did in the 1960s. We are a commodity of the 2020s to do."
odds against
The company says it expects about 15 to 20 launches do everything.
Golden Spike is full of space veterans: Chairman, Apollo-era flight director Gerry Griffin, who once head of the Johnson Space Center.
Advisers are former Space Shuttle commander and manager, former UN Ambassador Bill Richardson, engineer-writer Homer Hickam as Hollywood directors and former House Speaker and space enthusiast Newt Gingrich.
But, said Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who tracks the worldwide launches, the Associated Press that much of the new space companies will fail before anything is built.
"This is probably not the one who will look like his," Mr. McDowell said, referring Golden Spike is the hefty price tag.
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