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US government first issued to certain citizens permission to fly unmanned from the United States flights to the moon.
The private company Moon Express, founded by in 2010 and developing spacecraft for transportation of matter to the natural satellite of the Earth and back. Next year, for the first time, the company will exercise this right and will deliver a very unusual cargo to Selena.
Bob Richards, Founder and CEO “Moon Express”, says that to achieve such a resolution was not so easy. It took a long negotiations with the US State Department, US Department of Civil Aviation, NASA and many other federal institutions. However, now the company has achieved desired and plans to make a number of unique flights to the moon, while earning good money.
In 2017, “Moon Express” will send the closest to Earth celestial body robotic landing module dimensions about with a diplomat. During the two-week mission, the device will make there are many pictures and take samples of the lunar soil.
Populate the moon with human ghosts
However, the most interesting thing is that the device will leave on the satellite cremated human remains. Elderly rich and not resource-constrained terminally ill people now express a desire to be, if I may say so, buried on The moon. Their dust will be scattered by a robot on the surface of Selena, which can be considered the first in the history of mankind extraterrestrial burial ground.
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Undoubtedly, such a load will take part of the payload on drone – according to preliminary estimates, the cost transporting to the moon one kilogram of dust will cost about three million dollars. At the same time, the delivery of the remains to customers (dust) of one person, presumably, will cost more than eight millions. According to Bob Richards, the number of Americans and foreigners who want to be buried on the moon are counted dozens of names.
If “Moon Express” sends out of our planet at least third of them, it will not only pay off all investments in the project, but also allow the company to get a good profit. Another way earnings of a private company should be the delivery of stones from the moon and metals that are highly valued not only in scientific research, but also in the manufacture of jewelry, as well as private collections.
Comedian Brookbert Warshaw, an American television presenter humorous news program, ironically commented on plans “Moon Express”, saying the company wants to populate the moon human ghosts.
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