Private company developing commercial lunar lander [View all]
Source: Floriday Today
A private company that hopes to land paying customers on the moon has hired the builder of the first human landers to start designing a modern version.
Boulder, Co.-based Golden Spike Co., headed by former NASA executives, will work with Northrop Grumman Corp. on the preliminary design for a commercially flown lunar lander, including a review of concepts and mission requirements.
“This is a significant step forward in our plans,” said Gerry Griffin, Golden Spike’s board chairman and a former Apollo program flight director, in a press release. “Northrop Grumman brings Golden Spike a unique body of knowledge and skills as the only company to ever build a successful human-rated lunar lander, the Apollo Lunar Module.”
Northrop Grumman legacy companies, Grumman and TRW, designed and built the Lunar Module and Lunar Module Descent Engines for six Apollo moon landings between 1969 and 1972.
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