A $30 million competition
TO LAND A PRIVATELY FUNDED
ROBOT ON THE MOON
The Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest international incentive based prize of all time, aims to open a new era of lunar travel by vastly decreasing the cost of access to the Moon and space. Learn more about the competition
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DOME SHOW
Back To The Moon For Good, chronicles teams around the world competing for the largest incentivized prize in history, by landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon for the first time in more than 40 years.
MOONBOTS CHALLENGE
The 2014 MoonBots Challenge is an international on-line competition that challenges youth from 9 to 17 years old to form a team, and design, create and program robots to simulate lunar missions.
MOONBOTS-IN-A-BOX
MoonBots-in-a-Box is a spin-off educational project of the MoonBots Challenge. This project has been specially created for Science Centers to use with audiences all over the world.
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There's plenty more testing ahead before any of the Google Lunar XPRIZE teams actually lift off to the Moon. Team Part-Time Scientists explores a simulated lunar surface in Bremen, Germany.
MSNBC’s Craig Melvin dives into today’s space competition organized by the XPRIZE Foundation and sponsored by Google.
Eighteen teams are in a race to get to the moon, with a $30 million payoff. This summer, CNET will travel the world and follow five of those teams' final tests and preparations. Here's a taste of what's to come.