From Daily Mail

An ambitious project to put an African spacecraft on the Moon is sputtering on the launchpad as it struggles to secure funding.

The Africa2Moon Mission has drawn just £8,600 ($13,000) of the initial target of £99,000 ($150,000) with a countdown of only three weeks left before the appeal closes.

In contrast, a private British moon project, Lunar Mission One, rode the internet crowdfunding phenomenon to reach its target of nearly a $1million (£661,000) ahead of deadline last month.

 

 

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