SpaceX Could Beat NASA to the Moon

“Getting to the moon in 10 years is definitely doable,” says SpaceX vice president Chris Thompson.

That would be about 2015, which would beat NASA's goal of 2018. And it would be for a fraction of NASA's costs.

SpaceX was founded by dotcom millionaire Elon Musk. The company is focused on finding ways of significantly lowering the costs of sending payloads into space. They have now begun prototyping and selling payload space for a larger rocket and hope to eventually offer both manned and unmanned vehicles for one-tenth the current standard price.