Going to the Moon costs only $ 10,000 and 4 hours of flying

Naveen Jain, founder of Moon Express, said he believed Moon travel could be done in just a decade.

Moon Express was founded with the aim of winning a $ 30 million Google Lunar Xprize award, which was launched in 2007 to encourage access and exploration of space. The company also has an ambition to exploit resources on the Moon through a plan to survey the best locations for iron, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, rare minerals and helium-3 at the end of 2017.

Technology makes flights into space more and more cheap and fast.(Photo: Discovery).

According to Space Travel Company Virgin Galactic, the cost for a trip to the Moon is about $ 250,000 / person (nearly VND 5.7 billion). However, Jain said that this cost will become cheaper and that makes the number of subscribers increase.

"Initially, the Moon trip costs about $ 25 billion. Our mission is to reduce it to $ 7 million next year and only $ 10,000 (about VND 230 million) in the next 10 years. it will be shorter, even according to Jain, only 4 hours, shorter than the flight from London to New York, so the Moon can become a destination for romantic couples. "

Jain also said he is willing to partner with SpaceX's Elon Musk - who is working on a plan to bring people to Mars. However, Musk acknowledged that this goal met many obstacles. In a speech at the international astronaut conference earlier this year, he said that the first journey to Mars would be dangerous and could be fatal.

Significant temperature and high radiation differences are one of the challenges associated with bringing people to these bodies.