[FPSPACE] Golder Spike - affordable manned flights to the Moon
David R. Woods
drwoods at stny.rr.com
Thu Dec 13 20:05:53 EST 2012
I came across coverage for "Golden Spike" on the tube the other night.
According to their web site:
http://goldenspikecompany.com/
"The Golden Spike Company is planning to transform human space
exploration by putting in place affordably priced lunar orbital and
surface expeditions to the only natural satellite of the Earth – the
Moon. Golden Spike will further transform human lunar exploration by
making these missions participatory expeditions that involve the general
public in ways that create exciting new ways to monetize human space
exploration."
They envision conducting a manned landing mission with several launches
of components into Earth orbit:
http://www.space.com/images/i/000/024/261/i02/golden-spike-moon-landing-plan-121206d-02.jpg?1354833824
The lander vehicle, shown sitting on the Moon seems a little too small
to be feasible, but I could be wrong:
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/06/goldenspike_lander.jpg/_jcr_content/renditions/original
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