US licence to `Moon Express` |
The Federal Aviation Administration has given license to a private US company, co-founded by an Indian American, to launch a spacecraft and land on moon in 2017.This provides authorisation to Moon Express for a maiden flight of its robotic spacecraft onto the Moon`s surface. There have been no private space missions so far beyond Earth`s orbit and only state agencies have performed outer space missions. Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express said, the sky is not the limit for Moon Express, it is the launchpad. Space travel is our only path forward to ensure our survival and create a limitless future for our children. In the immediate future, we envision bringing precious resources, metals, and moon rocks back to earth, he added.
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