Moon Express was on Wednesday, the first company in the world authorized to bring a spacecraft out of orbit, reports Reuters . So far only did government organizations so.
Moon Express wants to start a mission of two weeks, which will put a lander the size of a suitcase on the moon in 2017. The éénrichtingsvlucht both some scientific experiments brought to the lunar surface, but also the ashes of the deceased.
The spacecraft Moon Express will take pictures and video of his landing streaming to Earth. The headquarters of the aerospace company is in Cape Canaveral, the place in Florida where NASA launches its missiles.
Commercial space missions
Permission to Moon Express is in the form of new regulations also the way for other companies that want to offer for example commercial expeditions to the moon, asteroids and Mars.
Until now, commercial flights outside orbit allowed the earth, because the US according to a treaty 1967 is responsible for all spaceflight companies. New regulations make flights possible in space.
Companies like SpaceX Elon Musk are expected to use the same new regulations. Musk wants to launch a mission to Mars in 2018. Under the new arrangements will provide advice NASA in activities on the moon, but not control.
The last successful landing on the moon was on December 1, 2013, when the Chinese lunar rover Chang’e 3 was put on the moon. The Apollo 17 mission of December 7, 1972 the last time put a man on the moon
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