Private moon-landings ahoy! They're planning a three-month exploration of the big ole rock!
TransOrbital of California has become the first private company in the history of spaceflight to gain approval from the US authorities to explore, photograph and land on the moon.
The US State Department and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have granted it permission to send its TrailBlazer spacecraft into lunar orbit.
The launch is set for June 2003 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
(Thanks, John!)
