£950m ticket to the moon

NASA has taken its astronauts to the moon for free - but if you want to go to the moon for any research work or a country wants its presence on the moon for national prestige - it can be arranged for just £950m or $1.5 billion.

This is what a company, operated by former NASA executives is ofering to the world.

The company, Golden Spike, is headed by former NASA associate administrator Alan Stern. Stern said he's looking at countries like South Africa, South Korea, and Japan."We are aiming for a first launch before the end of the decade and then up 15 or 20 launches total," added Stern.

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The company will buy existing rockets and capsules, only needing to develop new spacesuits and a lunar lander.

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U.S. planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on Moon in the 50s to show its technological edge over Soviet Union

The power game can sometimes take countries to take decisions that could end up in disasters only for the sake of point scoring. And this is exactly was on the minds of the US when it had actually planned a nuclear detonation on Moon to show its technological edge over the Russians.

The news published in the Daily Mail provide an insight as to how  a US mission had been planned in the 50s to blow up the moon with a nuke. The idea behind this novel consideration was to display America's Cold War muscle to the Soviets.

Under the scenario, a missile carrying a small nuclear device was to be launched from an undisclosed location and travel 238,000 miles to the moon, where it would be detonated upon impact.

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The secret project, innocuously titled 'A Study of Lunar Research Flights' and nicknamed 'Project A119,' was never carried out.

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500,000-mile Moon round-trip for £100million

Are you ready to go for a 500,000 miles Moon round trip for 'just' £100million?

Round trip to moon - are you ready? [photo: EPA / Daily Mail]

Well if you do, good news is that you can actually 'fly' to Moon for just £100million, as a British company is offering seats to adventurers willing to go the extra mile on a historic journey to the moon.

The first 500,000-mile round trip in a converted Soviet-era space station could take place as early as 2015.

Art Dula, founder and chief executive of Isle of Man-based Excalibur Almaz, told a space tourism meeting in London: 'We're ready to sell the tickets.'

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Watch an interesting combination Early Saturday Morning: Two Planets and a Star

Full Story: Yahoo News 19 Nov

If you’re up after midnight early on Saturday morning (Nov. 19), you should be able to see a celestial gathering of a bright star, a bright planet and a rather wide waning crescent moon. Look out towards the east-northeast sky at around 1 a.m. local time, to find a triangle in the sky composed of the three cosmic bodies.

These three cosmic bodies are: 

The star is Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation of Leo, the Lion. The planet in the triangle is Mars, which comes up over the east-northeast horizon shortly before midnight. The moon, as noted, is now a crescent phase, having just passed its last quarter phase earlier this week.  

Once the trio climbs high into the eastern sky in the predawn hours on Saturday, you’ll see that they’ll seem to resemble an isosceles triangle, which has at least two equal sides.

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