This video presentation describes a CubeSat with an Ion Drive that in 2013 could travel to the Moon.
With a grant from the Vermont Space Grant Consortium, a part of the NASA Space Grant program, a group of students from four Vermont colleges and universities, are making significant contributions to the development of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) workforce by developing a CubeSat, a new space technology.
Watch The Next Frontier: Vermont in Space – the talk starts 7:30 into the video
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpsIEeX-ck]
Vermont Lunar CubeSat Project http://www.vtspacegrant.org/cubesat.php
Vermont Lunar Lander Presentations http://www.cubesatlab.org/Lunar_Lander/Papers_and_Presentations.shtml
Vermont Space Grant Consortium / VT-NASA EPSCoR http://www.vtspacegrant.org/