Golden Spike

Golden Spike is a new company offering manned flights to the Moon-- including landing on the Moon-- starting in 2020.  Each flight will cost $1.5 billion.  The company is targeing nations, corporations, and individuals in its marketing efforts, and claims to already have some real interest.

The GS CEO is Alan Stern, a veteran NASA executive.  Stern, however, is more closely associated with unmanned planetary probe missions, such as the New Horizons probe currently on its way to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, than he is with manned spaceflight.  So far, he seems more scientist/administrator than visionary businessman.  Whether he is the person to make such an audacious business venture work remains to be seen.