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Pictures from the X Prize event

A few photos from the X Prize event in LA today:

From left: Bob Weiss of the X Prize Foundation, Larry Page of Google, Peter Diamandis of the X Prize Foundation, and Buzz Aldrin answer questions after the press conference.

While Diamandis talked, a small robotic rover (built by the Univ. of Oklahoma) rolled out […]

Jeff Foust | September 13, 2007, at 6:19 pm | Category: Suborbital | 3 comments

Google Lunar X Prize update

I just got out of some press events associated with the Google Lunar X Prize announcement this morning here in LA (where I discovered I created a little heartburn among the X Prize folks by linking to the HuffPo piece earlier this morning.) I’ll have more later, but some highlights from the announcement:

This is […]

Jeff Foust | September 13, 2007, at 4:50 pm | Category: Prizes, X Prize Foundation | 3 comments

Next X Prize will be a real lunar lander challenge

Later today the X Prize Foundation is scheduled to announce its next major prize competition, which has been billed as “the largest international prize in history” with a Fortune 500 sponsor. However, there is already one credible report about the prize. According to a blog post by Esther Wojcicki on The Huffington Post, today’s announcement […]

Jeff Foust | September 13, 2007, at 9:15 am | Category: Prizes, X Prize Foundation | 6 comments