X-Prize to Award $20 million to Lunar Race Winner

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The $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE is an unprecedented competition to challenge and inspire engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. To win the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a privately funded team must be the first to:
1, SUCCESSFULLY PLACE A SPACECRAFT ON THE MOON’S SURFACE

2. TRAVEL 500 METERS

3. TRANSMIT HIGH-DEFINITION VIDEO AND IMAGES BACK TO EARTH
http://lunar.xprize.org/

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The first privately funded team to do all of this before the end of 2017 will receive the $20 million grand prize. An additional $10 million is set aside for second place and various special accomplishments, bringing the prize's total purse to $30 million.
http://www.space.com/16509-images-goo...

The original X-Prize was funded by Anousheh Ansari. She is a software developer (born in Iran) who paid her own way to the International Space Station. I met her in 2009.
http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/20...


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