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New Google Lunar X PRIZE Team: Rocket City Space Pioneers! September 8, 2010

Today, a new Google Lunar X PRIZE team was announced to be joining the fray: Rocket City Space Pioneers!

Hailing from ‘Rocket City, USA’—-Huntsville, Alabama— the RCSPs are an experienced group of engineers. Four of the eight initial team members are seasoned employees of Dynetics, with others including Jason Andrews of Andrews Space and general manager of Draper Laboratory, Peter Paceley.

In fact, the team’s leader has been on a winning X PRIZE team before: Tim Pickens, lead propulsion engineer and commercial space advisor on the legendary SpaceShipOne.

With this stellar experience, alongside the resources that Dynetics (currently developing a lunar lander test bed for NASA) and the other companies involved so closely can line up, Rocket City Space Pioneers is definitely a team to be keeping an eye out for…

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