Personalized moon crash for sale on eBay
By Leonard David SPACE.com Friday, April 9, 2004 Posted: 3:53 PM EDT (1953 GMT)
Better hurry, and bring along at least $6 million. That's the opening bid on eBay for crashing 22 pounds (10 kilograms) of whatever personal cargo you want to lob to the moon.
Orbital Development of Carson City, Nevada, is looking for interested parties in its MoonCrash Project. For a starting bid of $6 million you can buy a commercial spacecraft project that will go to the Moon.
This is the simplest lunar project possible, explains the company, with a moon crash similar in scope to the late 1950s and early 1960s lunar impact missions carried out by the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Orbital Development will provide a lunar spacecraft that can be packed with personal paraphernalia. While en route to the moon -- taking 4 to 5 days -- and before smashing into the lunar terrain, the moon probe would return digital photography as it approaches the near side of the moon, right up the moment of impact.
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Tom Beck
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"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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