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    0 starsX | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 17 2007 | google, space, lunar, prize, xprize, competition
    Google Lunar X-Prize

    This is very cool. It would be a blast to actually work on this. Who wants to buy me a rocket?

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    • mike - Sep 17 2007

      The official rules page is quite meager:

      http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/competition/guidelines

      It's not clear if you can use a non-private launch system to put your private lunar vehicle on the surface.

      I wonder if you could piggy-back a rocket package on Spaceship One to get a boost to orbit, and then the moon.

      Given that no one has even produced an earth-orbiting satellite by private means, the moon shot, with it's 1GB "mooncast" data package seems quite the feat.

    • brad - Sep 18 2007

      Yeah! Starting with an existing platform capable of geosynchronous insertion... makes the project seem so much more do-able. This sounds like a job for SeaLaunch!

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