An X PRIZE is a $10 million+ award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has the potential to benefit humanity. Rather than awarding money to honor past achievements or directly funding research, an X PRIZE incites innovation by tapping into our competitive and entrepreneurial spirits.
I admire people for trying, but so far just a few remote control cars without any sense of integration, avionics, delivery, and most fundamentally money. Its a nice thought google, but if you are going to attract industry thirty million won't cut it. Good luck everyone, I hope you prove me decisively wrong. The philosophy behind the project is noble, and good on google for having a crack. Who knows? It worked for the original x prize! Right!
What happened to your team, Pete?
Not mentioned anymore here: http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams
Not mentioned anymore on the vote list.
And your web site is temporarily unavailable.
Radu - 2 years ago
ARCA must win. the idea of a Romanian spacecraft flying in outer space makes us so proud of the team. Plus, we already have a great astronaut in our history, Dumitru Prunariu.
Anyway, good luck to all teams ! Whoever invented this race is doing a good thing for the human society :)
I'd like to put in a plug for Team LunaTrex. We are 15% of the way to full funding, and we have a very sound approach, using very proven vendors, from launch to components. Additionally, we have a bunch of Huntsville, AL rocket scientists on the team, among others, with every element of the mission covered.
Also, we have the ability to bring major TV media attention, with my companies having been on Discovery and History Channels on 3 different shows over the past 4 years. This ability brings value to Sponsors, and will ultimately help hedge against risk for sponsorship dollars, which will only bring in more sponsors.
We are excited about the reality of achieving the goals of this mission.
So, unashamedly, I ask: Please VOTE for LunaTrex! and Thank You for your support...
I admire people for trying, but so far just a few remote control cars without any sense of integration, avionics, delivery, and most fundamentally money. Its a nice thought google, but if you are going to attract industry thirty million won't cut it. Good luck everyone, I hope you prove me decisively wrong. The philosophy behind the project is noble, and good on google for having a crack. Who knows? It worked for the original x prize! Right!
What happened to your team, Pete?
Not mentioned anymore here: http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams
Not mentioned anymore on the vote list.
And your web site is temporarily unavailable.
ARCA must win. the idea of a Romanian spacecraft flying in outer space makes us so proud of the team. Plus, we already have a great astronaut in our history, Dumitru Prunariu.
Anyway, good luck to all teams ! Whoever invented this race is doing a good thing for the human society :)
I'd like to put in a plug for Team LunaTrex. We are 15% of the way to full funding, and we have a very sound approach, using very proven vendors, from launch to components. Additionally, we have a bunch of Huntsville, AL rocket scientists on the team, among others, with every element of the mission covered.
Also, we have the ability to bring major TV media attention, with my companies having been on Discovery and History Channels on 3 different shows over the past 4 years. This ability brings value to Sponsors, and will ultimately help hedge against risk for sponsorship dollars, which will only bring in more sponsors.
We are excited about the reality of achieving the goals of this mission.
So, unashamedly, I ask: Please VOTE for LunaTrex! and Thank You for your support...