Europeans to Send Mission to Moon

to mine for water:

But by 2018 a mission which includes British technology hopes to have landed a robot probe on the surface of the Moon to find out if it has ice present under the surface.

Finding ice would upend scientific orthodoxy and the results of previous lunar missions, which suggested that the Moon was dry. 

The £500 million voyage, scheduled for 2018, is being planned by theEuropean Space Agency, of which Britain is a leading member. 

It will also be man’s first attempt at landing an object on the south pole of the Moon.

Of course, is is more than five years down the line.  Seems like a long way away.

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