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Old September 13th 07, 10:00 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Joe Strout
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Default Google/X-Prize Moon Contest

In article ,
Jim Kingdon wrote:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/


Yes, this is cool.

Interestingly, you just need to land by the deadline, not return the
whole gigabyte by the deadline (according to one of the news articles,
anyway).


Seems like you'd have to be cutting it awfully close for that to matter,
though.

Looks winable to me. I wonder if Henry is going to be part of a
team...


If he is, I'm placing my bets on him! What do you say, Henry? Is this
an opportunity to pump $20M into the Canadian economy? (Granted, $20M
isn't worth as much as it used to be, but still...)

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