Google Lunar X Prize

NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Russia, Google, John F. Kennedy, India, Moon Landing, Nasa, Nasa Space Shuttle, Google Lunar X Prize, Sputnik, Space Shuttle, India Space Program, China, China Space Station, Space Program, Nasa Budget, Space, NASA Funding, Space Race, Politics News
Howard Steven Friedman

Will we look back and ask ourselves whether the decision to abandon space was a wise decision? Or will historians look back and identify this decision as a textbook example of when America sacrificed long-term strategic goals for short-term interests.

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National Parks on the Moon?

Seth Shostak | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: SETI Moon, Google Race Moon, NASA Moon Preservation, NASA Moon Travel, Google Lunar X Prize, Outer Space Treaty Moon, National Parks Moon, X Prize Moon, SETI Moon Preservation, Google Space Exploration, Moon Preservation, Moon Travel, Moon Exploration, Google X Prize Moon, Technology News
Seth Shostak

The problem of Moon preservation is amusingly arcane, but we should do something soon. Otherwise, we'll likely succumb to our historic modes of exploration: just barrel ahead, and damn the consequences.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Rocket Engines

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Space Exploration, Rover, Google Lunar X Prize, X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis, Moon, Rockets, Moon Competition, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

My colleagues at the X PRIZE Foundation recently announced the official roster of 29 teams competing to send a robot to the moon. The moon is almost within our grasp already.

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Space Entrepreneurs Wanted

Robert Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Schwab

eSpace, the Boulder business incubator for space entrepreneurs, is looking for a half dozen new companies to launch into Colorado's growing space industry.

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Gold Rush on the Moon

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nasa, Moon, Gold Rush, Lunar, Water-on-Moon, Google Lunar X Prize, Technology News
Peter Diamandis

From an economic point of view, water on the Moon is the equivalent of finding "gold in the hills of California." There is the potential for a California gold rush to hit the space community in the years ahead.

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Launching Commercial Space Flight: Part Two -- Dumitru Popescu Builds His Dream Rocket

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dumitru Popescu, Peter Diamandis, Ansari X PRIZE, Burt Rutan, Google Lunar X Prize, Business News
Peter Diamandis

I told Burt Rutan, designer of Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne, in the presence of all the other competitors, that he would win the competition. This was hard for a lot of people to accept, but I was right.

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Guest Blogger, William Pomerantz: Our Robotic Overlords

Peter Diamandis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Xprize, FIRST Robotics National Championship, William Pomerantz, Robots, Google Lunar X Prize, X Prize, Politics News
Peter Diamandis

With kids like these, the future will always look bright, no matter how dark the present seems. The world needs a generation of champions for change, and that's exactly what today's youth are.

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Google's Brin: Microsoft Bid 'Unnerving'

AP | JORDAN ROBERTSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. an "unnerving" maneuver that thr...

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