Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Google backs private Moon landing, Google is offering a $30m prize pot to private firms that land a |
Sep 14 2007, 08:02 AM
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FROM: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6993373.stm
Firms interested in trying for the prize have until the end of 2012 to mount their Moonshot Anyone fancy a crack at this? Cheers Brian -------------------- "There are 10 types of people in the world - those who understand binary code, and those who don't."
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Sep 14 2007, 05:24 PM
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Well, the artifacts need not be Apollo - they could be Surveyors or Lunokhods, or Ranger debris fields, or SMART-1's impact site, etc. etc.
For most Apollo sites it would be possible to get very close to the LM or ALSEP without ever touching old tracks, if you came in the right way using maps of surface activites. There would be some controversy about any disturbance, so it would be best avoided from a PR point of view. As for the prize not being enough... it doesn't have to be. The original X-prize covered less than half the cost of the attempt. The builders need other sponsors, the prize is just a subsidy. I'm not sure if this will work. THe X-prize obviously did, but I have a feeling Bigelow's "America's Space Prize" ($100 million to the first private launch of a crew to orbit) is not realistic. Hard to say. But people have been trying this for a while - Transorbital, Applied Space Resources, Lunacorp. They couldn't get adequate funding. But this might help, and we're getting more of an 'angel investor' thing under way now than those companies had available to them. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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