Google Lunar X Prize
Project description
| Name | Google Lunar X-Prize |
|---|---|
| Location | Moon |
| Robots | Asimov |
| Entity | Part Time Scientists |
| Short description | Part Time Scientists Team will try to send a rover to the moon and return real-time HD video back to earth to win the Google Lunar X-Prize |
| Project URL | http://part-time-scientists.com/ |
Description
The first 50 years of human spaceflight were marked by explosive growth, culminating with 14 men exploring the surface of the moon, followed by 40 years of relative stagnation.
We aren’t sitting on our hands any longer.
Today, we live in a remarkable world. We have global communications (the internet), technology, computing power, and commodity resources one could only dream of 20 years ago. Robotics components are available at prices in the tens of US Dollars, not the millions of Dollars of the 1960’s.
The participants in the many space related prize competitions largely popularized by the X-Prize Foundation all realize that there is something the average person can do to advance our society into space. We don’t need to wait for a government or large company to enable space exploration. We believe that a small group of dedicated people with diverse backgrounds and even different countries can accomplish meaningful missions that ultimately change the dreams of our generations.
We believe in action.
Asimov R2 is taking his first "steps"