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Date: Dec 1 12:24 2016

Lunar X-Prize	Permalink

Private plan to send Moon rover to Apollo 17 site A proposed private space mission is planning to visit Apollo 17's landing site on the Moon. A German team wants to land a pair of rovers on the lunar surface to inspect the buggy left behind in 1972 on the last crewed mission to the Moon. The group, called PT Scientists, is one of 16 teams vying for the $30m Google Lunar X-Prize. Read more __________________

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Date: Dec 17 23:01 2008

Google Lunar X-Prize competition	Permalink

MIT faculty and students have joined the race to send the first privately funded spacecraft to the moon. At a press conference on Dec. 17 at NASA's Ames Research Center, organizers of the Google Lunar X-Prize competition revealed the members of a "mystery team" that is one of a dozen contestants for the $30 million prize and that, it turns out, includes significant MIT participation. The competition, announced in the fall of 2007, set several ambitious goals: To win, a privately funded team must send a spacecraft to the moon, land safely, and then move at least 500 meters across the surface; while there, it must send high-resolution images and video back to Earth. Fourteen teams have registered for the competition, including the mystery team whose participants remained a closely held secret until the Wednesday announcement. Two teams have already dropped out of the contest. Read more __________________

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Date: Sep 13 18:11 2007

Private Moon landing	Permalink

Search giant Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a robot rover on the Moon. The competition to send a robot craft to the Moon is being run with the X-Prize Foundation. To claim the cash, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video and roam for specific distances. Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot. Read more __________________

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