primesuspect
13 Sep 2007, 9:43pm
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Okay, it's really $20 million to the Grand Prize winner. What wins the grand prize?
To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation.Perhaps Google really DOES want to map the moon. Their corporate mission is to organize the WORLD'S information - they don't say anything about LUNAR information. Perhaps that's going to change.
Get building!
Okay, it's really $20 million to the Grand Prize winner. What wins the grand prize?
To win the Grand Prize, a team must successfully soft land a privately funded spacecraft on the Moon, rove on the lunar surface for a minimum of 500 meters, and transmit a specific set of video, images and data back to the Earth. The Grand Prize is $20 million until December 31st 2012; thereafter it will drop to $15 million until December 31st 2014 at which point the competition will be terminated unless extended by Google and the X PRIZE Foundation.Perhaps Google really DOES want to map the moon. Their corporate mission is to organize the WORLD'S information - they don't say anything about LUNAR information. Perhaps that's going to change.
Get building!