Tasteful Advertising Funded Moon Mission

This idea is based on three facts: 1. Everybody likes to see manned space flights, and the moon landing was awesome. 2. Few people are actually willing to fund manned space flights. 3. Capitalism.

Omega Watches is still riding the publicity that they got for having their products used on the moon. Who knows how many watches have been sold because because the label "Moonwatch" carries so much more weigh than "Navitimer"? Would Tang still exist if it wasn't flown on Mercury 7? Surely there is a lot of potential for companies in space-advertising. BUT. Nobody wants to see a moon landing with NASCAR-style logos covering everything. To solve this, companies could sponsor a flight with the understanding that their benefit will be long term bragging rights instead of direct advertising.

Each sponsoring company gets to send one tested and certified product on the flight, and pays a lump sum of money ranging from 1-50 million dollars. The company actually building the rocket incorporates these products into their plans and uses the money to fund the rest of the flight. Once on the moon, the company conducting the launch will make sure that good pictures and video are taken of the products on the moon. To keep it tasteful these pictures won't be broadcast, and there won't be any sneaky product placements in the live video feed. The materials are simply returned to the sponsoring companies when the ship lands for future advertising use.

Years down the road, Microsoft will still be selling Windows 8 as "the operating system of the lunar lander", Red Wing shoes will have a giant picture of a boot print in the moon dust at every store, and Iridium Satphones will be saying "yes, they really do work on the moon!"