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The first team has officially registered to compete in the Google Lunar X PRIZE! Odyssey Moon , hailing from the Isle of Man, announced their intention on December 6th at the Space Investment Summit in San Jose, CA. In all, more than 350 teams have requested information about the prize, and more than 10 have started the registration process! It should be a great field of competitors, all working to get back to the Moon as fast as they can. Join the revolution! Chances are good that you don't remember when humans landed on the Moon. You don't know the excitement of going outside and looking up at our friendly celestial neighbor and thinking "There's a person up there." Well, the next X PRIZE, the Google Lunar X PRIZE, is a step in the right direction towards making that reality come true once more. We're not sending a person to the Moon. Not yet, at least.
The Rules It's simple, really. All teams have to do is build a lunar lander and rover that can handle the intense rigors of space, send it there ( SpaceX will send it there for them so they don't have to build a launcher vehicle), then roam around the surface, sending back a whole bunch of data, in something that we're proud to be calling a Mooncast. And what do they win if they do?
$20,000,000.
You can also win a Second Prize of $5,000,000 if you either get there second or get there and can't roam around. Bonus prizes totaling another $5,000,000 will also be available for things like discovering water on the Moon or finding one of the Apollo landing sites.
If you want to check out a more detailed list of the rules, go to the Google Lunar X PRIZE site.
Stay tuned for more details about what teams are registering for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, and how they are progressing.
Go to the Moon OK, so you can't really go to the Moon. But you can send something to the Moon with the first rover to go! All you have to do it go to: www.googlelunarxprize.org. For $10, you can upload a 1MB picture and a short saying, and your contribution will be packed on the first competitor, and dropped off on the Moon. Right now, the only picture of a family on the Moon belongs to Apollo Astronaut Charlie Duke.
Upload your picture here! The X PRIZE Foundation, founded by Dr. Peter Diamandis, M.D. in 1995, was based on the idea that motivation fosters change. Also, he wanted to go into space someday, and didn’t think NASA would let him go, which is why the Ansari X PRIZE was the first X PRIZE. After the success of the Ansari X PRIZE, Diamandis and the Foundation realized what a powerful tool millions of dollars can be. Many arenas, like space, medicine, energy, automotive, education, environmental, and social progress have stalled under the current bureaucratic systems. The Foundation’s goal is to give people the motivation to bring about change in each of these arenas; namely, million-dollar prizes. X PRIZEs capture the imagination of the public and speed radical breakthroughs that can ultimately change the way we see ourselves and how we live on this planet.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself!” Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation. Memories First Group of Official Contenders in the Google Lunar X PRIZE Announced

(The competitors in the Google Lunar X PRIZE at the team announcement at Google Headquarters) The X PRIZE Foundation and Google, Inc. today announced the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes. This international group of teams will compete to land a privately funded robotic craft on the Moon that is capable of roaming the lunar surface for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and data back to the Earth. read more

See the reactions of Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, X PRIZE Foundation Chairman and CEO, and William Pomerantz, Director of Space Projects, to the Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Announcement on our YouTube Channel.

The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award

.. The winners of a national space-oriented high school competition, the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award, were recognized today in a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. To highlight the efforts of the students, the X PRIZE Foundation and NASA unveiled a new exhibit which will travel around the country called Spirit of Innovation. In addition, the X PRIZE Foundation announced that the Conrad Award Scroll, inscribed with the names of the winning team, will be carried to the International Space Station in the fall of 2008 by Richard Garriott.
The 2007 X PRIZE Cup was held October 27 and 28 at Holloman Air Force Base. The event was a phenomenal success, with the Air Force putting on a loud, fast, and fun Air Show, and team Armadillo making a valiant go at winning the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. They nearly won Level I, held back by just seven seconds. Next year promises to be an exciting one, as the rest of the teams have a year to get their own landers ready.
You can check out video highlights of the Cup on Space.com.
Additionally, the Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award, sponsored by NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program, was awarded at this year's X PRIZE Cup. Team Michael and Talia won the First Prize for their idea of sunglasses that monitor vital signs while in space. Team Gad Astro and Team Penguin Education won second and third place, respectively. All of the teams and descriptions of their ideas are available in X PRIZE Space's blog.
Thanks to everyone who came out! We'll be posting pictures and video in the near future, as we get them in.

The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge

The NG-LLC requires teams to build a vehicle that can simulate the process of landing on the Moon. Landers have to be able to carry a payload of 25 lbs and raise 50 meters off of a landing pad and float over to a second landing pad.

Wirefly X PRIZE CUP: 2006

The 2006 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup was held at the Las Cruces Airport in New Mexico. The only NG-LLC team to fly then was Armadillo, who is coming to try again for the $2 million this year.
The Armadillo Team and their Lander

The original X PRIZE that put the X PRIZE Foundation on the map. The goal: to launch a privately-funded vehicle 62 miles into the air, to where the edge of space begins, twice in two weeks.

SpaceShipOne, the winner of the Ansari X PRIZE, on its way to space!
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