Moon Express
American privately held space exploration company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, and of ultimately mining the Moon for natural resources of economic value.[1][2] The company was not able to make a launch attempt to reach the Moon by March 31, 2018, the deadline for the prize.
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 2010 |
Headquarters | Cape Canaveral, FL 32920 |
Key people | Robert D. Richards, Naveen Jain, Barney Pell |
Website | moonexpress |
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Since late 2018, and as of February 2020[update], Moon Express focused on supporting NASA under its Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contract.[3]