Your Face on the Moon, Thanks to X Prize Foundation
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The organization responsible for the $10 million Ansari X Prize announces it will send a DVD to the moon with personal photos and messages from the general public. It's called the Lunar Legacy Program and you can submit stuff.
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TheSpaceShipOne team is handed the $10m cheque and trophy it won for claiming the Ansari X-Prize.
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The X PRIZE Foundation announced today a new education competition designed to cultivate interest and excitement in the fields of space, science and technology.
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The terms of the prize, announced by the X Prize Foundation of Santa Monica, Calif., require competitors to sequence 100 human genomes of their choice within 10 days.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will pay up to $30 million in prize money to anyone able to land a privately funded spacecraft on the moon, because "it's cool," the company said on its blog. "More seriously, space exploration has a remarkable history of producing technological breakthroughs," wrote Alan Eustace, senior vice president of engineering, on Google's blog. He cited ablative heat shields, asteroid mining, invisible braces, and the Tang orange drink as past achievements, and said the prize money could lead to further developments in robotics, new space-age materials, precision landing control technology, "and who knows what else." Teams from around the world will vie for the Google Lunar X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. The X Prize Foundation is best known for another space competition, the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private suborbital spaceflight, won by SpaceShipOne three years ago. Google teamed up with the foundation on the lunar project. A grand prize of $20 million will go to the first team to land a privately funded spacecraft to the Moon and complete several tasks. Bonuses of up to $5 million can be earned from roaming an additional 5,000 meters on the surface of the Moon, finding and photographing man made artifacts left on the lunar surface, such as hardware from one of the Apollo missions, discovering water ice, and surviving a lunar night, a frigid affair lasting 14.5 Earth days, the foundation said. The remaining $5 million will be paid to the second place finisher in the competition. Images from the lunar landing will be available online at the Google Lunar X Prize Web site. There is a time limit to the competition. The value of the grand prize will drop to $15 million after Dec. 31, 2012, and on Dec. 31, 2014 the contest will end unless extended by Google and the X Prize Foundation.
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The Burt Rutan/Paul Allen private spacecraft is on the brink of nabbing the $10 million X Prize. But that&#39;s just the start. The $10 million X Prize is almost in the bank.
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NASA's plan to permanently colonize the moon holds out the promise of a dramatic advance in space exploration, but the ambitious project requires massive financing and a high level of global cooperation.
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The contest calls for entrants to land a rover on the moon that will be able to travel at least 500 meters and send high-resolution video, still images and other data.
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Europe&#39;s first mission to the Moon, the unmanned exploratory probe SMART-1, has been safely placed in lunar orbit after a voyage of more than 13 months, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday.
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The agency envisions a base at one of the lunar poles, to take advantage of the near-constant sunlight.
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A series of X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned.
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The successful X-Prize mission of Burt Rutan&#39;s SpaceShipOne last week was a major success for the commercial space industry. But although that success has led to the creation of space
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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The launch of the Columbus science laboratory marks a key moment in space exploration for Europe.
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Highly detailed photos of the Moon from the 1970s are being made available to the public for the first time.
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If you have planetary vision, want to be on the cutting edge and don't get bored easily, the European Space Agency may be looking for you.
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.