The Cosmic Gold Rush

London, UK
Website

Documentary Carbon

“When we land on the moon, we’ll become the first private company ever to do so,” says Naveen Jain, the billionaire co-founder of Moon Express, a Florida-based space exploration company.

In July 2016, the U.S. Government made a historic ruling to allow the private enterprise permission to travel beyond Earth’s orbit and land on the Moon in 2017. The company is racing for $30m in prize money for Google’s Lunar X Prize competition, which challenges private companies to place a spacecraft on the moon, travel 500 meters across the lunar surface and transmit high-definition images and video back to Earth.

Contributors
Alex Mellon, Ross Henbest

Owner
Culture Trip