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Google launches lunar competition
Friday 14th September 2007, by Daniel King
Internet search engine Google is offering a $30 million (£14.8 million) prize to the first private company that lands a robot on the moon.
The competition to send a robotic craft to the lunar planet is open to all private companies across the world and is being run with the X Prize Foundation.
To claim the cash for the Google Lunar X Prize, any craft reaching the lunar surface must perform a series of tasks such as shoot video and roam for specific distances within the next five years. Launching the scheme, Google and the X Prize Foundation said the competition came about to create low-cost space exploration.
Dr Peter Diamandis, chairman of the X Prize Foundation, said: "The Google Lunar X Prize calls on entrepreneurs, engineers and visionaries from around the world to return us to the lunar surface and explore this environment for the benefit of all humanity."
The X Prize Foundation is a charity which aims to fund innovations that will solve problems across the world.
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