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LongTomH

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5. NASA would probably be their largest customer, along with other national space agencies.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Fri Nov 16, 2012, 08:05 PM

Nov 2012

I doubt they could make a go of this on space tourism alone. I read some of the posts on the NASAspaceflight forum; that seems to be the opinion over there as well.

It would be interesting to read a business plan for this consortium.

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Private Moon Landing in the works: "Golden Spike" [View all] bananas Nov 2012 OP

I cannot see how they plan to make money doing this. louis-t Nov 2012 #1

It won't happen: it's expensive as hell, and there's no real commercial payback struggle4progress Nov 2012 #2

Millionaire masturbation. Scuba Nov 2012 #3

Paragon Space Development is also involved w/ Golden Spike commercial lunar company bananas Nov 2012 #4

NASA would probably be their largest customer, along with other national space agencies. LongTomH Nov 2012 #5