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| − | <em>image by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeW5O6GGOtM ispace inc]</em><br /> | + | <em>image by [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeW5O6GGOtM" rel="nofollow ispace inc]</em><br /> |
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| − | Eighteen teams remain active, out of 33 starters, in the quest to win the $30 million [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details Google Lunar X-Prize]. The challenge is to build the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon, travel 500 m and make two transmissions to Earth, all before the end of 2015. The teams have various depths of expertise and support, including the Israeli [http://www.spaceil.com SpaceIL] team which received a $16 million dollar donation from Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino tycoon who usually uses his billions to influence presidential candidates. Perhaps the most clever team promotion comes from the Japanese [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/hakuto/blog/ HAKUTO] team that produced the video in today's LPOD. The name Hakuto relates to a Japanese fairy tale of a rabbit on the Moon. That country's government lunar program, Kaguya, is also named after a traditional folktale. Perhaps the US use of descriptor names (Ranger, Orbiter and Surveyor) and a Greek mythology name for our premier lunar exploration program (Apollo) reflects a lack of traditional national fairy tales - maybe that is what politics is.<br /> | + | Eighteen teams remain active, out of 33 starters, in the quest to win the $30 million [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/prize-details" rel="nofollow Google Lunar X-Prize]. The challenge is to build the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon, travel 500 m and make two transmissions to Earth, all before the end of 2015. The teams have various depths of expertise and support, including the Israeli [http://www.spaceil.com" rel="nofollow SpaceIL] team which received a $16 million dollar donation from Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino tycoon who usually uses his billions to influence presidential candidates. Perhaps the most clever team promotion comes from the Japanese [http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/hakuto/blog/" rel="nofollow HAKUTO] team that produced the video in today's LPOD. The name Hakuto relates to a Japanese fairy tale of a rabbit on the Moon. That country's government lunar program, Kaguya, is also named after a traditional folktale. Perhaps the US use of descriptor names (Ranger, Orbiter and Surveyor) and a Greek mythology name for our premier lunar exploration program (Apollo) reflects a lack of traditional national fairy tales - maybe that is what politics is.<br /> |
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| − | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | + | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow Chuck Wood]</em><br /> |
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Revision as of 23:00, 4 January 2015
To the Moon And Beyond
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