Moon missions take brains, willpower, and usually, the wealth of nations. Until now. Brains are still needed, as is willpower. Now, for the first time in history, YOU can join a group landing a privately-funded spacecraft on the Moon.
Showing posts with label Lunarlion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lunarlion. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Lunar Lion Update
In the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, a challenge for the first privately funded team to transport a robotic spacecraft to the moon and send video, images, and data back to Earth, there are some big players with a lot of manpower. Competitors in the challenge, launched in 2007, include Moon Express, a lunar transportation and data company based at NASA's Silicon Valley research park; Synergy Moon, a nonprofit initiative with working groups toiling away in 15 countries; and Earthrise Space, which has a NASA contract to provide data from its first mission to the moon.
Monday, April 7, 2014
To the Moon, Nittany Lion
It’s not unusual for engineering students to enter competitions. They regularly build bridges, concrete canoes, submarines, solar houses, even Rube Goldberg machines. But an 80-member team of Pennsylvania State University students is hard at work designing something that is unusual: a Moon lander.
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