Comments on: Next X Prize will be a real lunar lander challenge

By: Henk

Henk — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:05:36 +0000

“And why should you trust Esther Wojcicki anyway? She’s a high school journalism teacher in Palo Alto, California. She’s also the mother-in-law of Sergey Brin, the other co-founder of Google, so she’s something of an inside source.”

Never, ever, trust your mother in law to keep a secret…

By: Personal Spaceflight » Google Lunar X Prize update

Personal Spaceflight » Google Lunar X Prize update — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:50:42 +0000

[...] this morning here in LA (where I discovered I created a little heartburn among the X Prize folks by linking to the HuffPo piece earlier this morning.) I’ll have more later, but some highlights from the [...]

By: Peter Shearer

Peter Shearer — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:24:36 +0000

SWEET!

By: anonymous.space

anonymous.space — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:49:24 +0000

Thanks to Andy for the press release link.

And congratulations and kudos to the X PRIZE Foundation for developing an exciting yet thoughtful set of prize objectives and securing the funding and other sources of support for it.

It’s rather sad, though, that NASA has no substantive role in this endeavour. Had Congress and NASA properly funded the Centennial Challenges program, this competition could have started years ago. Between a lack of NASA prize funding, the effective termination of NASA’s Lunar Robotic Exploration Program, and the deferrel of decisions on Ares V/EDS/LSAM to the next White House, the agency’s relevance to future lunar exploration is rapidly receding. Too bad… but thank goodness private entities like the X PRIZE are there to pick up some of the pieces.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:27:15 +0000

http://www.xprize.org/lunar/press-release/google-sponsors-lunar-x-prize-to-create-a-space-race-for-a-new-generation

The press release is out

By: A Lunar Lander X-Prize! « Tai-Chi Policy

A Lunar Lander X-Prize! « Tai-Chi Policy — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:05:53 +0000

[...] According to Personal SpaceFlight, today the X-Prize foundation and Google are teaming up to start a Lunar X-Prize. I can’t wait, and expect it to be claimed in about, hmm…5-7 years, based solely on the [...]