Lunar X PRIZE

Backers of the RRE Kickstarter will be tasked with helping get the Asimov RA3 ready for a lunar mission (Image: PTS / Alex Adler)

Space

Take control of a moon rover with the Remote Rover Experiment project

The Remote Rover Experiment Kickstarter project enables backers to help test an Asimov R3A moon rover.

An Interorbital Systems TubeSat in low Earth orbit

Space

Interorbital Systems, a rocket and spacecraft construction company founded in 1996, is introducing the age of the Personal Satellite.

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Barcelona Moon team enters Lunar X PRIZE

Spain is now officially represented in the Lunar X PRIZE, with the entry of Barcelona Moon Team.

Armadillo Aerospace will be competing at level 2 following success with its PIXEL lander

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Build a lunar lander and win $1 million

Three teams will be competing this October in the Grumman Lunar Lander competition

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Virgin Galactic and the start of the Commercial Space Race

Space - it's the final frontier of human exploration, a mysterious eternity of distance, all around us and yet so tantalizingly out of reach.

Google Lunar X PRIZE competitor Odyssey Moon Limited

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Google Lunar X PRIZE announces first ten teams

The X PRIXE Foundation has released details of the first ten teams to register for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30million competition to land a robotic craft on the Moon and send video, images and data back to the Earth.

Photograph taken from the Moon's surface during the Apollo 8 mission. Photo: NASA

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$30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE

September 17, 2007 The prize that saw the world's first private spaceship reach beyond the Earth's atmosphere in 2004 is headed for the moon. The X PRIZE Found