Could Kickstarter-funded Lunar Mission One be the UN’s first space mission?
by Stuart Clark from on (#BENW)
The United Nations is taking an interest in the commercially funded Lunar Mission One project. Could commercial space enterprises open the door to fully international space missions?
If it works, Lunar Mission One will be a game changer. Instead of relying on governmental organisations such as the European Space Agency (ESA) or Nasa to fund science, Lunar Mission One is a privately-funded space science mission.
Anyone from individuals to governments will be able to buy into the mission. It aims to land at the moon's south pole in 2024 and drill into the lunar interior for answers about how the whole solar system formed.
