TORONTO, November 20, 2014 – York University Space Engineering Professor Ben Quine is available to speak to media about the Lunar Mission One Kickstarter campaign, which is hoping to raise funds to send an unmanned robotic landing module to the South Pole of the Moon – an area unexplored by previous missions.

Quine can speak on what the mission will entail and how it could improve scientific understanding of the early solar system, the formation of our planet and the Moon, and the conditions that initiated life on Earth.

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Media Contact: Robin Heron, Media Relations, York University, 416 736 2100 ext. 22097 / rheron@yorku.ca