Naveen Jain

Naveen Jain, Chairman of Moon Express

Naveen Jain, a billionaire entrepreneur with two insanely ambitious ventures underway. He’s on the boards of the X-Prize and Singularity University, and has written a book called Moonshots about extreme entrepreneurship efforts.

Jain co-founded Moon Express in August 2010 and is its chairman. The company is building machine-operated spacecraft to mine materials like gold, cobalt, platinum, and Helium-3 (nuclear energy fuel) from the moon. It will also prospect for water on the moon's south pole, which could be used to create rocket fuel for missions to Mars and beyond. Jain claims his target for Moon Express is to found human colonies on the moon by 2022.

His company Moon Express managed to get approval from CAA for first private Lunar Landing in 2019.

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