Pittsburgh's Astrobotic Shooting for the Moon

The fact that successful companies like Celestis are signing on with Astrobotic is encouraging to Marco Caceres, senior space analyst and director of space studies at Teal Group, an aerospace and defense industry analysis company:

From what he knows about Astrobotic, "it looks like this company will be one of the pioneers in space. And initially, that will probably be one of the advantages" like it has been for Celestis, he said. "If it works and if you're the first private company to get up there, that's huge."

He also likes that Astrobotic, has learned "like SpaceX, that, in order to minimize risk, take NASA on as a client."