Google and X Prize Foundation Sponsor Lunar Race
2007 September 14
Screw NASA, ESA, ROSCOMOS, JAXA and any other international government funded space exploration agency. Google (yes the one and only search giant) and the X Prize Foundation is giving away 30 million dollars worth of prizes to successful, privately funded companies who manage to get a robotic rover on the Moon that will complete several mission objectives, including roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth.
Hmm I wonder if I could do all those things and land the millions. No it will take at least 10 times that in research alone before anything leaves orbit.
Read more – Official Press Release
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take out a loan and get started if you win youll have enough money to pay it off…help with the nations debt while you’re at it
get a loan? sure, i’ll just walk into NCB first thin on Monday and ask for a 300 million dollar loan ^_^…I’ll be sure to send you my medical expenses bill as well -_-, cuz I know they will woop my geeky ass
Geeks, We’re geeks in spa -ace
Zooming around defending the nerdy race!
@ Tori…please go take your medication ^_^
That one is just real bull it cost ten times that to build and send one up in space … and here i thought the people at google were kool
.. guess you never know
Thanks for the link love buddy!
@ Brown…no problem ^_^
I seriously doubt you could do it man. More proof that Google has way too much money on its hands.
yup way too much indeed
Have you seen the news?!
JAXA (Japan Aerospace)
is set to privatise and compete for X-prize!
http://www.risingsunofnihon...
thanks Tori I will post about this right away