Google Runs Out-Of-The-World Competition
Posted by Phoebe Chin on 02/29/08 in General, Internet Companies
Google Lunar X Prize is up for grab and heap of teams from different private enterprise are queuing up to compete for that big fat prize. How? Easy. Just travel to the moon.
The contestants are required to land a privately funded robotic spacecraft on the moon, explore the land at a distance of at least 500 meters and broadcast the journey back to Earth in images and data. Google offered $30 million as the Grand Prize for this mission.
The X Prize Foundation announced last week, the first 10 teams that are in the running to be the Google Lunar X Prize winner. Odyssey Moon is the first team to register for the price and team leader, Robert Richards, said that this trip is not about winning the prize alone but hoping that it will also score them business opportunities ahem.. well, on the moon!
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