Comments on: If you and a friend happen to have $1.4 billion, the new private company Golden Spike wants to take you to the Moon. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/if-you-and-a-friend-happen-to-have-1-4-billion-the-new-private-company-golden-spike-wants-to-take-you-to-the-moon/ Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:33:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kelly Starks https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/if-you-and-a-friend-happen-to-have-1-4-billion-the-new-private-company-golden-spike-wants-to-take-you-to-the-moon/#comment-72603 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:33:17 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=20973#comment-72603 So all they have to do is get enough potential buyers for their $1.4 billion flights, to traise the $8billion to develop the systems to do it?

Yeah good luck with that.

This reminds me of attempts to get funding for space by selling the rights to put advertizing on launchers. There was virtually no interest.

This, like SpaceX, will be pointed to in Congress as prof “commercializing space” doesn’t work.

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