The best space news I’ve seen…
…since the last X Prize:
SANTA MONICA, Calif., September 13, 2007 – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon that is capable of completing several mission objectives, including roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
Jerry Pournelle has been advocating a Government-funded version of this for decades, but since the Gov’t has its hands full just trying to keep its own space program going, I’m tickled to see private industry stepping up. Full details of the Google Lunar X PRIZE are here. ..bruce..