Google Lunar X PRIZE

Going to the Moon? Don’t Touch the Historical Artifacts, NASA Says

May 24, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Don’t say you haven’t been warned. NASA put out an official document today specifying how close any future spacecraft and astronauts visiting the Moon can come to the artifacts left on the lunar surface by all US space missions, including the [...]

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Interview and tour with GLXP team Omega Envoy – SpacePod 2011.05.30

May 30, 2011

Spacevidcast’s Jason Rhian had a chance to go behind the scenes with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Omega Envoy to take a peek at their new facility and the progress of their lunar rover. Omega Envoy is one of nearly 30 teams competing to win part of the $30 million dollar pot for sending [...]

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When Will We Return to the Moon and Who Will it Be?

March 3, 2011

At the end of the movie “Apollo 13,” when the character of Jim Lovell says “I look up at the Moon and wonder, when will we be going back, and who will that be?” he probably didn’t have anything like the Google Lunar X PRIZE in mind. Similarly, when the GLXP was announced back in [...]

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Map of Future Lunar Landing Sites

January 6, 2011

Here’s the map of the future: a look where all the contestants in the Google Lunar X PRIZE intend to land on the Moon, in hopes of nabbing the $30 million in prizes available to the first privately funded teams to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon. Dr. Philip J. Stooke [...]

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