March 9, 2009 — Nothing like a $30 million purse to get people excited. But the Google Lunar X PRIZE is doing more than getting people excited.
It’s opening the field of lunar exploration to a global community of inventors, explorers and entrepreneurs, all who hope to be the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth and win the $20 million grand prize.
The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million grand prize, a $5 million second prize and $5 million in bonus prizes.
With the addition of the Synergy Moon team in late February, 17 teams have now entered the competition, each with a unique plan for getting to the lunar surface. Click here to get to know the competitors by following their blogs, watching their videos or participating in their forums.
The Synergy Moon team, comprised of 48 members from 15 countries across the globe, is sponsored by eSpaceTickets.com, the world’s oldest space tourism contest organization. The team was created through the collaboration of three interrelated organizations: InterPlanetary Ventures, a private sector space promoter; the Human Synergy Project, a multi-national sustainable projects group; and Interorbital Systems’ rocket team, led by Roderick Milliron.
“Our mission in entering the Google Lunar X PRIZE is to help create excitement and reignite the public’s interest in space exploration,” said Kevin Myrick, Synergy Moon Team Leader. As part of that mission, they’ve organized including space-themed concerts, art festivals, space-related fashion shows, and core technology demonstrations.
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Odyssey Moon is one of 17 teams hoping too get to the moon first and win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE.
Photo credit: Odyssey Moon
Team FREDNET’s Surveyor SRV-1 Blackfin.
Photo credit: Team FREDNET.
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