Google Lunar X Prize
Published on 14 Sep 2007 at 10:54 am.
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Google announced yesterday that they are joining with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor the Google Lunar X Prize which offers $30 Million to the first two privately-funded teams that successfully lands and roves a robotic explorer the lunar surface. This prize, which is the largest private prize ever, is aimed at creating a global private space race that involves the public in space exploration.
The recent Ansari X Prize was awarded to Burt Rutan and Scaled Composites who succeeded in launching the first manned reusable private spacecraft into space. These prizes are motivated by the early prizes in aviation that led to Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic only 80 years ago.
So start aiming at the Moon!
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
