The American Moon Express plans to equip the expedition to the moon cost less than $ 10 million – TASS

NEW YORK, August 10. / Corr. TASS Aleksey Kachalin /. Private US-based Moon Express plans to equip the expedition to the moon at a cost of less than $ 10 million. This was said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News Channel co-founder and chairman of the board of this company Naveen Jain.

“To paraphrase John F. Kennedy (35th US president -. approx TASS), we choose the moon not because it is easy, but because it is a profitable business on the Moon, there are minerals worth $ 16 quadrillion Earlier flights to cost billions of dollars, and now the cost of the expedition.. Earth’s natural satellite will be less than $ 10 million “, – he said

Earlier, Moon Express received US government permission to send an expedition to the moon in 2017.. “The US government has taken a truly historic decision to allow private enterprise Moon Express to carry out a journey beyond Earth orbit and put the unit on the surface of the moon in 2017″, – told Reuters one of the founders and head of this company, with its headquarters at Cape Canaveral (Florida ) Bob Richards.

“The total cost of the preparation and implementation of the lunar landing of the first unit of the company will be less than $ 50 million. This amount includes everything including the development of all necessary. in the future, the price of the flight will be lower than $ 10 million” -. said Jain

a number of countries, including the US, Russia, China, Great Britain, Japan, stated bases of construction plans for the Earth’s satellite. NASA when US President George W. Bush – younger intends to begin construction of the Lunar outpost, designed for life and work of astronauts in 2019 and complete it in 2024. However, in 2010, to address the current head of the White House, Barack Obama, the project was abandoned due to lack of funds. In 2012, the Deputy Director of NASA Lori Garver, speaking at a conference in California, reported that the Obama administration considers it necessary to create on the surface of the Moon “living object”.

Currently, Washington in terms of development of the Moon puts engagement with private capital. Following the Moon Express pulled other companies, including SpaceX, which has developed the Dragon ships, successfully delivering cargo to the International Space Station.