The new moon travel startup Golden Spike has chosen its first contractor to design private lunarlander vehicles: veteran aerospace firm Northrop Grumman.
However, as with the European LunarLander project I wrote about in my last posting, EPS-SG is having to compete for funds alongside a wide range of very worthy projects.
Armadillo came close to winning the X Prize Foundation's Northrop Grumman LunarLander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.
Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) LunarLander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.