“Why go to an asteroid when the moon has aggregated them for billions of years?” (Image: Brian Smale)
Lunar mining start-up Moon Express is testing robotic moon landers in advance of a 2015 trial mission. Internet entrepreneur Naveen Jain tells Paul Marks why he founded the firm, and why he’s leaving the pursuit of asteroids to rival space miners
How did you go from internet businesses to moon mining?
I’d been looking at how to solve big problems in alternative energy. A lot of the time, innovative ideas don’t get very far because we just don’t have the affordable material resources here on Earth. Take platinum,…
