The Golden Spike Company was an American space transport startup active from 2010 to 2013, chartered for business in Colorado with the objective of offering private commercial space transportation services to the surface of the Moon. Its name refers to the ceremonial final spike placed in the First Transcontinental Railroad upon its completion, and the company website was taken offline in September 2015.
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Private startup; no annual operating budget figure is given in the Wikipedia article consulted. It cites a total program cost estimate of 7 to 8 billion dollars and a per-mission fee near 1.5 billion dollars, and an Indiegogo campaign that raised 19,450 dollars of a 240,000 dollar goal, none of which is an annual budget figure. Agency TypePrivate commercial spaceflight company (lunar transport startup) 1 Founded Year Headquarters HeadAlan Stern, founder, president and CEO 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Golden Spike Company
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The Golden Spike Company was an American space transport startup active from 2010 to 2013
Company background section
The company was chartered for business in Colorado
Funding and cost estimates section
Company president and CEO Alan Stern announced in briefing papers
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The Golden Spike Company was an American space transport startup active from 2010 to 2013
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Golden Spike was founded in 2010 by Alan Stern
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