Moon miners book Kiwi rockets for 2017 lunar landing

Moon Express, one of the teams competing for the $30m Google Lunar X-Prize, has booked five rockets that will be ready for a 2017 attempt to get to the Moon. The deal with New Zealand firm Rocket Labs will see Moon Express' MX-1 lander make an attempt at the first commercial lunar landing for the Google Lunar X-Prize. To win …

[Your alien overlord - fear me]

That's going to ruin new Hobbit movies, having rockets firing off in the background.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Good" -- Ken, empathising with Otto being beaten as a child (A Fish Called Wanda)

If he can't make more Hobbit movies then just maybe Peter Jackson will go back to making the sort of nice small films that he started with. These days he's NZ's answer to George Lucas: with both directors a fan edit cut their bloated epic trilogies down to a single far better film.

[Chris G]

500 metres worth of HD video

Damn! Gonna have to build a big film set for that!

[Winkypop]

What?

No bungee cords involved?

[Anonymous Coward]

iPhone of space?

I thought the idea was to make space capability cheaper, not hideously overpriced! 8-}

[TJ1]

It will then use hydrogen peroxide fuel...

... and if that fails at least it'll not have a bad-hair day.