A first look at the compact MoonEx's MX-1 spacecraft, designed to bring payloads to the lunar surface and--eventually--bring precious minerals back.
Earlier this week, I accidentally stumbled into the wrong part of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Inside an enormous, empty event space, a small group of young engineers tinkered with a futuristic machine that looked to be part hovercraft, part Mars rover. When asked what they were working on--just a stone's throw from ringing slot machines and filthy nightclubs, mind you--one team member indicated that it was a lunar lander. Pardon?