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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #401 on: 12/06/2012 04:25 pm »
Board of Directors:
Gerry Griffin
Alan Stern
Cindy Conrad
Esther Dyson
James R. French
Doug Griffith
David Lackner
Michel Loucks
Taber MacCallum
Max Vozoff

Board of Advisors:
Conrad Anker
Bobby Block
Michael Bostick
Andrew Chaikin
Jonathan Clark, M.D.
Nancy Conrad
Newt Gingrich
Wayne Hale
Homer Hickam
Chris Kemp
Stephen Mackwell
Tod Mesirow
Mike Okuda
Bill Richardson
Bob Walker
Zak Williams

Lunar Lander System Team:
• Armadillo Aerospace
• International Lunar Observatory Association
• Masten Space Systems
• Moon Express
• Paragon Space Development Corp.
• Southwest Research Institute
• Space Florida
• United Launch Alliance
• Zero Point Frontiers Corp.
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #402 on: 12/06/2012 04:30 pm »
Newt Gingrich
Wayne Hale
Homer Hickam

That's a combination!

Few other notes: Southwest Research is Stern's day job. Stephen Mackwell the director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, just down the road from JSC.

Zero Point is a small company in Huntsville, last heard working on LauncherOne.
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #403 on: 12/06/2012 04:35 pm »
Lunar Lander System Team:
• Armadillo Aerospace
• International Lunar Observatory Association
• Masten Space Systems
• Moon Express
• Paragon Space Development Corp.
• Southwest Research Institute
• Space Florida
• United Launch Alliance
• Zero Point Frontiers Corp.

Interesting to see ULA involved.  Could we see the ACES system appear in some form? ULA's lunar plan is certainly what I'd consider a 'railroad' to the Moon.
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #404 on: 12/06/2012 04:37 pm »
Lunar Lander System Team:
• Armadillo Aerospace
• International Lunar Observatory Association
• Masten Space Systems
• Moon Express
• Paragon Space Development Corp.
• Southwest Research Institute
• Space Florida
• United Launch Alliance
• Zero Point Frontiers Corp.

Interesting to see ULA involved.  Could we see the ACES system appear in some form? ULA's lunar plan is certainly what I'd consider a 'railroad' to the Moon.

Looks like. ULA for the kickstage, Armadillo/Masten/Paragon for the lander... and the capsule should be Dragon ;-)

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #405 on: 12/06/2012 04:37 pm »
Yes, and Space Florida would confirm a CCAFS or KSC launch.

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #406 on: 12/06/2012 04:38 pm »
Got to be the worst embargo ever this. ;D Not complaining, it's very clever to sneak some stuff out already and they have been helpful.

Still got a lot in the article that's not out there.
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #407 on: 12/06/2012 04:39 pm »
Quote
Tod Mesirow
Motion picture producer,
co-founder of Five by Five Productions
Mike Okuda
Hollywood graphic and set designer
(“Star Trek”)

That'll put the conspiracy theorists into overdrive.  :D

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #408 on: 12/06/2012 04:39 pm »
Got to be the worst embargo ever this ;D
Still got a lot in the article that's not out there.

Haha, that's crowd-sourcing ;-)

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #409 on: 12/06/2012 04:44 pm »
So, will the lander have an LCARS interface? ;)
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #410 on: 12/06/2012 04:47 pm »
So, will the lander have an LCARS interface? ;)

Mike Okuda is a graphics designer by trade but he's also a technologist who created a lot of the theoretical underpinnings of the Star Trek universe and made  them relatively internally consistent.  I suspect that he has a technical/engineering background.

In any case, if anyone doesn't think he designed the 'Golden Spike' logo, they're fooling themselves. ;)
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #411 on: 12/06/2012 04:47 pm »
Remember, I'm locking this thread and then starting a new thread very shortly.

I'm sure it'll be a mix of cheering and booing.....should be fun :/
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #412 on: 12/06/2012 04:50 pm »
So, will the lander have an LCARS interface? ;)
Take a closer look at what the astronaut is holding in the video.  ;)

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #413 on: 12/06/2012 04:53 pm »
Another embargo buster?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/golden-spike-space-tourism-company-to-the-moon/2012/12/06/52eedcc8-3fc3-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html

More details. Selling seats on a two-person lander for $750M each, marketing it to countries, corporations, and the super-rich. No details yet on investors or on any interest/pre-sales to customers.

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #414 on: 12/06/2012 04:58 pm »
Hm, both Masten and Armadillo and no mention of SpaceX (yet). Maybe they are going 100% ULA?

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #415 on: 12/06/2012 04:58 pm »
$1.5 billion per landing, so about what NASA is having to scrape from the bottom of the barrel to pay for the next Mars rover.

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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #416 on: 12/06/2012 04:59 pm »
Hm, both Masten and Armadillo and no mention of SpaceX (yet). Maybe they are going 100% ULA?

"CST-200" deep space version maybe?
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Re: Private Moon Landing in the works?
« Reply #417 on: 12/06/2012 05:00 pm »
Locked.

New thread, with the article, out of embargo:
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=30549.0
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