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Soon, having vacation on the moon will become a reality - Here`s how!
Have you ever dreamt of having a vacation in the moon?
New Delhi: Have you ever dreamt of having a vacation in the moon? Well, a dream of a trip to moon is just about to turn into a reality soon.
According to reports, the Moon Express – a company that aims to bring people from the Earth to the Moon in terms of a vacation – has been granted permission by the US law to leave the Earth and land on the moon. It is the only private company with such great access.
The company is offering tickets to the moon for more than $150,000,000, and the trip is scheduled for 2026.
Naveen Jain , the mastermind behind the company, which founded back in 2010 and he and his team have been working tirelessly to convert this dream of many into a reality.
A report in ZME Science stated that the company was granted permission by the US Federal Aviation Administration, to launch its first unmanned mission by 2017. They not only target to bring people to the moon but also explore the idea of possible mining ores from the Moon's surface. The target for this unmanned mission is to survey possible spots for mining, Nature World News reported.
Based on another report in IFL Science, the trip will start by being launched from the Soyuz rocket from Russia and will drop by the International Space Station (ISS) before officially making it to the moon. A total of 17 days in orbit, they are expecting to bring the spacecraft within 100 kilometers from the surface of the moon and not exactly land on it.