New X-Prize for the Moon
Google is offering $20 million dollars to the first private entity to land a robotic rover on the Moon.
Welcome to the new space race. Motivated by money and the desire for exploration. And now we are going beyond sub orbital. This just makes me smile. Of course when we start throwing up private citizens and corporations into space, I am sure NASA, the other space agencies, and the UN will go into fits. I say screw them. They wasted all the capital and resources they had built up in the race to the moon and Soyuz. If it wasn't for the Chinese I am not sure NASA (an organization I love) would even be trying to go back to the moon.
The graphic from Wired:
A Lunar picture as well:
Welcome to the new space race. Motivated by money and the desire for exploration. And now we are going beyond sub orbital. This just makes me smile. Of course when we start throwing up private citizens and corporations into space, I am sure NASA, the other space agencies, and the UN will go into fits. I say screw them. They wasted all the capital and resources they had built up in the race to the moon and Soyuz. If it wasn't for the Chinese I am not sure NASA (an organization I love) would even be trying to go back to the moon.
The graphic from Wired:
A Lunar picture as well:
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