A private company you probably haven’t heard of just announced that it has the money it needs to shoot for the moon, literally.
Moon Express — one of the teams competing to win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize — says that it has now raised enough money to build, test and launch its uncrewed MX-1E spacecraft to the lunar surface before the end of this year.
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“We now have all the resources in place to shoot for the moon,” Moon Express CEO Bob Richards said in a statement.
In total, the company has raised more than $45 million in private funding for its moonshot. …
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A private space company you probably don't know has enough money to land on the moon
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