Washington_ The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) of the United States has authorized the private company Luna express to travel to the moon to explore the satellite with automatic space probes, Prensa Latina publishes.

The company, headquartered in Florida, has obtained permission from the US government to send commercial and scientific missions to the Moon aimed at taking pictures and videos from the moon and transmit them to Earth.

In addition, it will send, for the first time, cremated remains of people who want to be buried on the Moon.

For its operations, Luna Express will have the assistance of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

This supervision is based on the 1967 Treaty, which gives the US government the international responsibility for all space flights made from its national territory by non-governmental entities.

“Achieving our goal was hard, because the FAA is responsible for issuing credentials for commercial rocket launches in the USA; and so far, the only private missions authorized have not gone beyond Earth's orbit”, Luna Express founder, Bob Richards, said.

Experts point out that this decision opens a new era of space exploitation.

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