Space-Tourism Company Is Selling Trips To The Moon For $750 Million Each
Destination: the Moon Bob Familiar via WikimediaSo start saving now. On the heels of SpaceX's vision of a human colony on Mars, here's another idea for people who think of outer space the way the rest of us think of Hawaii: a space-tourism startup is selling trips to the moon at $750 million each. The company, known as Golden Spike, actually has good pedigree: former NASA science administrator Alan Stern is working on the business. The plan is to repurpose space hardware for moon journeys, rather than build rockets from scratch, and to use the sort of commercial rockets we'll be seeing more of in coming years. The passengers would get the trip, and a chance to walk on the moon, before returning home. (A two-person mission like that would cost about $1.5 billion, Stern told The Washington Post.) Oh, and Newt Gingrich, he of let's-build-a-moon-base-by-2021 fame, is listed on...