Golden Spike Plans Commercial Moon Flights

Ken O’Brien

The "Golden Spike" was the ceremonial final spike driven by Leland Stanford to join the rails of the First Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory.

Now the name has been adopted by a private venture planning to bring commercial lunar travel to reality by the end of the decade.

 The firm is the brainchild of former NASA science chief Alan Stern and Gerry Griffin, a former Apollo flight director and former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.