[quote=""Sam Fraser""]
£404,505 pledged of £600,000 goal (as of Dec. 1 2014, "16 days to go")
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Lunar Mission One got fully funded in the end:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lu ... escription
Another similar private lunar project is
Moonspike which is currently running a Kickstarter campaign:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mo ... oon-rocket
£66,284 pledged of £600,000 goal (as of Oct. 15, 2015, "16 days to go")
I wish them the best of luck.
Veterans here may recall Shackleton Energy's early attempts at a crowdfunding campaign way back in the mists of time (2011):
Shackleton began a US$1.2 million seed stage funding round in November 2011, working with crowd funding partner RocketHub.[7][8] At the end of the fund raising period, only a total of $5,517 was raised out of the hoped-for $1.2 million (0.46%).[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_Energy_Company
It seems in 2015, seven-figure space-themed crowdfunding campaigns have a better chance, although I tend to think it's still a bit much at the outset.
And speaking of Shackleton, while Googling the latest info, I came across this:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47 ... ton-crater
2013 interview with the game author here:
http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/15/410553 ... -interview
A pity this wasn't fully funded, it looked a lot of fun. And it seemed to me a more common-sense approach to start small with something like an online game or app that could generate revenue quickly and easily. (A commenter on the Kickstarter page suggests the initial goal of $700,000 may have been too high.)