Moon Express given permission to fly beyond Earth

Posted on 4 Aug 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

Moon Express has become the first private enterprise given permission to fly beyond geostationary orbit.

The US-based private spaceflight company intends to send a probe to the Moon by 2017, however before they did this, they first required regulatory permission from the US government. Moon Express received this landmark go-head following extensive consolation with the FAA, the White House, the State Department, Nasa and other federal agencies. Prior to this…

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