Want 30 Million? Google Says Go to the Moon!
Google has set up a $30 million fund to encourage a moon race in conjunction with the X PRIZE Foundation. The winning team will receive $20 million, but in order to win you must land a privately created spacecraft on the moon and have your spacecraft perform certain tasks (travel 500 meters and transmit high definition video images back to earth). The second placed team will receive $5 million, and another $5 million is set aside for “bonus prizes.”
The Mercury News reports that “Peter Diamandis, chief executive of the X PRIZE Foundation, said in a statement that the goal of the competition is to stimulate the development of low-cost methods for robotic space exploration.
“The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most pressing environmental problems that we face on earth - energy independence and climate change,” Diamandis said.”
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