Veerryy cool. Googlebots on the moon…
“The Google Lunar X Prize is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon”
They’ve now signed up and announced ten private teams (from 560 expressions of interest), who should launch in 2012.
You may have seen it on durh TV news, but I thought I’d mention it here, with a link to the website.
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by D’log :: blogging since 2000 » X-Prize podcast
27 Sep 2008 at 15:50
[…] may have heard that Google is helping fund the $30m Lunar X Prize to land on the moon, and has today launched its own $10m innovation ideas prize. So what’s going on here? Well, […]