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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon

moon express  lander

The Moon Express lunar lander -- seen here in an undated artist's illustration -- weighs in at just under 200 pounds (90 kg).

The moon is made of far more valuable stuff than green cheese. And one man wants to capitalize on that fact.

NASA, which ended America's space shuttle program in June, says it wants to privatize spaceflight. Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express, Inc., wants to go a step further: He wants to privatize the moon itself.

Jain's company plans to piggyback on private shuttle flights, using them to carry his lunar landers and mining platforms to the moon.

"People ask, why do we want to go back to the moon? Isn't it just barren soil?" Jain told FoxNews.com. "But the moon has never been explored from an entrepreneurial perspective."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/10/18/meet-man-who-wants-to-mine-moon/

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