[SpaceProgram] Fwd: In Google’s Moon Race, Teams Face a Reckoning | Xconomy

[Huei Ming Tan]

Incidentally, Scientific American profiled Whittaker's team for the April
edition (paywalled). There's a restriction on sharing large file
attachments, which is why I didn't attach the article here.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bound-for-the-moon

Warmest regards,
Huei Ming


On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Máté Ravasz <ravaszmeister at gmail.com>wrote:

> Tell me about it... I am also on one of the teams ( www.pulispace.com ),
> and we have long ago realized that this competition is not about building a
> moon rover, its about getting a wad of cash.
>
> 40 year old technology is pretty much sufficient to do the job (except
> maybe for the HD videos), you just need to raise a few million $ to build
> and launch your construct. While many teams focus on engineering and
> creating cool machines, actually none of them is even close to buying a
> ticket for a rocket. To be honest, a group of investors probably would have
> succeeded sooner than a group of engineers in this challenge.
>
> Still, We'll get there eventually :)
>
> On 19 April 2012 22:55, Jerry Isdale <isdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Article interviewing some of the people behind XPrize teams and
>> difficulties they are having raising $, etc....
>>
>>
>> http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/04/18/in-googles-moon-race-teams-and-x-prize-foundation-face-a-reckoning/?single_page=true
>>
>>  Jerry Isdale
>> isdale at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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