Private company wants U.S. clearance to fly to the moon
Thursday, June 9, 2016 - 16:20
in Astronomy & Space
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies are working on temporary rules to allow a private company to land a spacecraft on the moon next year, while Congress weighs a more permanent legal framework to govern future commercial missions to the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond Earth's orbit, officials said.