New company aims to send humans back to the moon
- Published: 7 Dec 2012 at 11.47
- Online news: World
Two former top NASA officials unveiled plans to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there.
This file image, released by NASA, shows the Earth rising over the moon, as seen on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968 from Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the moon, as it entered lunar orbit. Two former top NASA officials have unveiled plans to sell manned flights to the moon by the end of the decade, in an announcement 40 years after the last human set foot there.
Spaceflight, long the province of national governments, has moved toward increased commercialization in recent years, with private companies for the first time successfully launching rockets into orbit.
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