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Published online 10 February 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/457770b
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One more step for private Moon mission
Odyssey Moon secures Dutch payload.
A spectrometer meant to fly to Mars on a European mission in 2016 will get to the Moon first. The Dutch team that is building the instrument last week announced it would send a scaled-up version, dubbed MoonShot, to the lunar surface by 2011 with Odyssey Moon, a company headquartered in the Isle of Man, UK.
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The Apollo missions returned 381 kg of Moon that were assigned 2196 sample numbers and cut into 80,000 lots. Look at that.
I can understand the desire to land next to the Apollo 11 landing site, seen in high-definition television but I hope Astrobotic Technology realise the cost of messing it up at around touchdown and destroying what will no doubt be one of the most important significant sites for humans into the future.
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