UK to lead crowd-funded mission to set up moon base

Professor Brian Cox and Astronomer Royal Lord Rees support British-led plan to send a lander to the moon

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A British-led not-for-profit organisation plans to send a probe to the moon within ten years to explore the possibility of setting up a permanent human base on the lunar surface.

The Lunar Missions Trust, an independent consortium which has been endorsed by eminent scientists including Professor Brian Cox and the Astronomer Royal Lord Rees, will hope to raise £500m from public donations for the project, the BBC reports.

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