Most people wouldn't think a good follow up to selling your search engine company to Microsoft would be to then start a company that will build lunar landers. But that's exactly what
Barney Pell, the cofounder and CEO of
Powerset, is up to. He sold Powerset to Microsoft for $100 million in 2008. He still works there, but he's cofounded a new company called
Moon Express that plans to build lunar landing craft for commercial purposes. Joining him are Robert Richards (CEO) and, inexplicably,
Naveen Jain. How Jain plans to rip people off from space eludes me, but I'm sure he'll figure out a way. Putting Jain aside for a moment (Pell and I have argued for hours about his
ethics), Moon Express is an audacious company. They were one of six companies chosen by Nasa to receive funding from it's $30 million Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) project. And they are
one of only three companies to actually receive part of that funding. Their aim is to create "reliable precision transports" that will allow people to develop, explore and research the moon. Over time, these landers will be able to return to earth safely with samples, etc.
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