Friday, September 14th 2007
Google Sponsors $30 Million USD Moon Landing Challenge
A few years ago, the $20 million USD X Prize kick-started a race into space. And now, the X Prize is going one step and $10 million USD further. The first private organization to land on the moon, travel 500 meters on the moon, take one gigabyte worth of video/pictures, and stream it back to Earth will win $30 million USD. Anyone can win, assuming that they are not working for any particular government. However, be advised, the cost of building such a craft and launching it is quite possibly much more than $30 million USD.
Anyone interested in visiting the techPowerUp! Forums user DaMulta at the moon base should enter the new space race here.
Source:
DailyTech
Anyone interested in visiting the techPowerUp! Forums user DaMulta at the moon base should enter the new space race here.
17 Comments on Google Sponsors $30 Million USD Moon Landing Challenge
or NASA may not let the Google boys use their airstrip anymore. :eek:
www.mercurynews.com/columns/ci_6873505?nclick_check=1
Hmmmm.... does it? Anyone have any factual input on this? :confused:
if the moon were to suddenly look like the Pepsi logo, wouldn't you have a raging urge for Pepsi every time the moon came out?