The final roster of teams competing for $30 million in prizes in the Google Lunar X PRIZE was announced today. The list of 29 teams can be found at this site. Team members vying for the prize can be found all around the world, with a team's headquarters in almost every continent.
The contest involves making a lunar spacecraft and having it reach the moon, land and travel 500 meters. Additional requirements involve collecting data and transmitting video from the lunar surface. The contest started in 2007, with a winner expected in 2015. Many contestants have already started working on spacecraft.
In a press release X PRIZE Foundation Chairman and CEO Peter Diamandis said, “The official private race to the Moon is on. What I find amazing is that when we first announced this competition, we thought there might be a dozen groups talented and bold enough to compete. Instead, we have nearly 30 teams of heroic innovators showing us a new way to the Moon.”
Check out the video in this article to see Peter Diamandis talk to the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams.
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I have a huge issue with people that think the moon is real. It OBVIOUSLY is not. Poof is in the poodle.
Anonymous dose raise a vaylid point. Historacly, most asternots have not been to the moon on more than a cople ocasins. It is fare to say that many of sciense has been a wash with evidense that can leed to more discovary if their is an internets. Time will tell. As many in my field say, "Their's a time and a plase, but only if they can say (their is a moon)". I hobe that they will be forchint to be able to say that there is, but likaly we have even dance.
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