"Angel Milagro planned the first privately funded lunar landing while sitting at his childhood school desk. The young aerospace engineer is the mission director for Ispace, a Japanese company valued at around $448 million. In Tokyo, he led a team of more than 20 specialists with one objective: to land a robotic probe on the Moon, something only the United States, China, and India had achieved at the time; no private firm had yet accomplished it."
"The 35-year-old specialist studied at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and worked for the European Space Agency on projects such as the Galileo satellite network in Germany. In 2022, stuck in a rut and confined by the pandemic, he decided to accept the offer to become a manager at the Japanese company, for which he is already designing his fourth mission, which will be his most complex yet."
Angel Milagro planned the first privately funded lunar landing while sitting at his childhood school desk. He serves as mission director for Ispace, a Japanese company valued around $448 million, and led a Tokyo-based team of more than 20 specialists to land a robotic probe on the Moon, a feat previously achieved only by the United States, China, and India. In 2022 Milagro directed mission operations remotely from his parents' house in Alfaro, La Rioja, amid pandemic lockdowns. He studied at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and worked at the European Space Agency on projects including the Galileo satellite network. Milagro is designing his fourth and most complex mission and envisions a lunar economy with permanent residents and tourists by 2040 driven by resource exploitation.
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