Bob Richards (Bob_Richards) Robert D. Richards - Home. Odyssey Moon. Moon Express, Inc. (Moon_Ex) sur Twitter. Moon Express. Meet the Man Who Wants to Mine the Moon. — Naveen Jain wants to privatize the moon by exploring its precious minerals. — His company, which calls itself MoonEx, was awarded a contract as part of NASA's $10 million Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data.
The moon is made of far more valuable stuff than green cheese. And one man wants to capitalize on that fact. NASA, which ended America's space shuttle program in June, says it wants to privatize spaceflight. Naveen Jain, co-founder and chairman of Moon Express, Inc., wants to go a step further: He wants to privatize the moon itself.