{"id":12525,"date":"2016-04-21T01:10:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12525"},"modified":"2016-04-21T01:10:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:10:26","slug":"video-bob-richards-and-moon-express-2017-a-private-lunar-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12525","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bob Richards and &#8220;Moon Express 2017 &#8211; A private lunar mission&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> seminar, Bob Richards of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Moon Express<\/a>\u00a0talked about the company, the <a href=\"http:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Lunar XPRIZE<\/a>, and the business case for commercial activities on the Moon:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/weeky-lecture\/moon-express-2017-private-lunar-mission-enabling-science-commerce\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Moon Express 2017 - A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science &amp; Commerce -  Bob Richards (SETI Talks)\">Moon Express 2017 &#8211; A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science &amp; Commerce &#8211; Bob Richards (SETI Talks)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ly8YMIoqufg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth&#8217;s economic sphere to the Moon and beyond. Creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long term prospects of humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Bob Richards is Co-Founder and CEO of Moon Express, Inc. (MoonEx), a privately funded lunar transportation and space resource development company, striving to become the first commercial company to land on the Moon, a challenge only accomplished by 3 superpowers in history. Located at Cape Canaveral, Moon Express has contracted for 3 launches to the Moon with Rocket Lab between 2017 and 2020, is partnered with NASA under its Lunar CATALYST program, and is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition with a verified launch contract. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>In this talk Bob Richards outlines Moon Express and it plans to develop lunar resources, and how this goal has set in motion technological, political, legal and regulatory precedents that will allow humanity to rationally and peacefully embrace and develop the Moon as the world&#8217;s eighth continent.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent SETI Institute seminar, Bob Richards of Moon Express\u00a0talked about the company, the Google Lunar XPRIZE, and the business case for commercial activities on the Moon:\u00a0Moon Express 2017 &#8211; A Private Lunar Mission Enabling Science &amp; Commerce &#8211; Bob Richards (SETI Talks) From the caption: The health of our home planet and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Bob Richards and &#8220;Moon Express 2017 &#8211; A private lunar mission&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,74,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-space-business","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3g1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9261,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9261","url_meta":{"origin":12525,"position":0},"title":"Video: &#8220;Citizen Science \u2013 Can Science Harness the Power of 7 Billion?&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"November 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The SETI Institute posts this video of a discussion at the SETICon2 \u00a0event last summer of the potential of citizen science. 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