The Golden Spike Company announced on the anniversary of Apollo 17 (the US's last Apollo mission to the moon) that it would begin offering as they put it, " routine exploration expeditions to the surface of the Moon."
Using existing rocket systems and emerging commercial-crew spacecraft, the company plans to market the resulting system to "nations, individuals, and corporations with lunar exploration objectives and ambitions. Plus offer them at a fraction of the cost of any lunar expedition envisioned so far.
Golden Spike estimates the cost for a two-person lunar surface mission will start at $1.4 billion. Golden Spike says that this price point is very competitive as many of the countries are already spending for robotic equipment.
I was going to also include the Golden Spike web address but I received a 404 error....
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I found a yahoo article on it, so here is that link. It's yahoo, yahoo wrote it, so don't blame me. I'll try and find a main page for the company later, maybe they'll have something written up. Here's the yahoo link though.
http://news.yahoo.com/moon-firm-hopes-sell-1-5-billion-trips-181057374--finance.html
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