Google Lunar X PRIZE Roundup #15 April 19, 2010
Posted by Nick Azer in : Google Lunar X Prize, Google Lunar X Prize Roundup , trackbackBig week for the Google Lunar X PRIZE—lot of major stuff on the official GLXP front, if pretty quiet from the teams. Here’s the lowdown:
- SpaceNews reports that there is a proposed one-year extension of the GLXP grand prize deadline—so teams could have until Dec. 31st, 2013 to win the main $20 million prize, instead of until Dec. 31st, 2012. Good news for the teams, if it comes to be :)
- A new GLXP team will be officially announced this week: Barcelona Moon! I’ll have a full look at them once the official announcement is made :)
- The first official X PRIZE TweetUp was announced! Connect with the rest of the online GLXP community Friday, April 30th at the X PRIZE Foundation headquarters in L.A. (coming up fast!). I won’t be able to make it (I’m up in Oregon with limited means to travel—typical starving-creative mid-20′s Portlander :D), but Anousheh Ansari will be there :) Space is limited, so register early!
- The GLXP Moonbots Lego Mindstorms Challenge is officially underway!
- The GLXP is also all signed up to be at the National Lunar Science Center’s free Lunar Science 2010 forum in July :)
- GLXP guy Will Pomerantz was in attendance for President Obama’s big speech at the Kennedy Space Center :)
- Team Astrobotic‘s available payload space was featured by Popular Mechanics! Also, their President, David Gump presented at a NASA conference on participatory exploration.
- Team Synergy Moon posted photos of their TED presentation in Croatia! Also, team member Randa Milliron was the subject of several interviews.
Check back mid-week for my post on new team Barcelona Moon, and next Monday for roundup #16!
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