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Moon mining race under way
Space exploration has long been about reaching far off destinations but now there is a race to exploit new frontiers by mining their minerals.
Google has offered a $20m grand prize to the first privately-funded company to land a robot on the moon and explore the surface by moving at least 500 metres and send high definition video back to Earth by 2015.
A second-placed team stands to win $5m for completing the same mission, with bonus prizes for travelling more than 5km, finding water and discovering any traces of man’s past on the moon, such as the Apollo site.
Alastair Leithead visited the test laboratory of Moon Express, one of 25 companies vying to win the prize.
5 Comments on "Moon mining race under way"
keith on Thu, 7th Mar 2013 8:04 pm
Hi,
I’m highly educated, have no job, and have an idea to make you rich. Moon mining. I’ll I need is your money.
BillT on Fri, 8th Mar 2013 1:10 am
Another crock of —-! Been there, done that back in 69. Those who doubt should think about it. How many hundreds, if not thousands of people were directly involved in that project around the world? Observatories, tracking facilities, etc. You can be sure that the Russians tracked everything we put up those days. They would have known if it didn’t go to the moon and would have exposed the US as a fraud in a heartbeat. They were our enemy in those days and wanted to also get there first. So, disbelief is another “denial” by the religious freaks who are trying to roll back science because it cuts deep into their false beliefs.
They may find that man is not the only moon visitor…
Ham on Fri, 8th Mar 2013 1:26 am
Not sure about that one BillT. The Soviet Union was pretty much ruined as a Country after WWII. The Cold War was a series of blatant media lies, in 1961 when the missile gap was announced; the US had 45 ICBMs whilst the Soviet Union only had 4, which could have easily been destroyed, indeed the top brass were contemplating it. For several years the Soviet Union relied heavily on US wheat. They were in no position to denounce any US fraud, in fact it may have been the case that some Cosmonaut deaths were not released to the public.
DC on Fri, 8th Mar 2013 1:48 am
RoFL, it took the US how many billions in the 70s? And they brought back how many pounds of rock total…50 pounds? I dont recall exactly. And they were mostly well..rocks, not gold, diamonds or platinum. How many billions per pound does that work out to?
Haha. Yea sign me up, I could use more work, ill be a moon-miner!
jodell8964 on Fri, 8th Mar 2013 12:37 pm
The moon could support agriculture in the future!!! How could that be possible?? Are there fossil fuels waiting to be exploited in the moon?? All we would have to do is extract the yet to be discovered natural gas, convert it to fertilizer and voila – we can turn moon soil into rich steroid induced soil that grow corn for the ethanol industry….ha, ha, ha.