Odyssey Moon

[3] His goals include developing the first commercial enterprise that utilizes the energy and resources on the Moon.

[6] To achieve this end, the team enlisted the part-time consultant services of Alan Stern, NASA's former top-rank planetary scientist.

Outside NASA, another part of his forty years of professional experience was as president of Lockheed Martin Space Operations from 1997-2004.

[8][needs update] The team's goals are to build and deploy a robotic lander that will deliver exploration as well as scientific payloads to the Moon.

[1] Colin Pillinger, a scientist with a background in studying meteorites, led the European Space Agency's failed Beagle 2 Mars lander project in 2003.