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The latest news from space-faring countries, agencies, industry and academia   ·   Saturday 25 May 2013, 7.22am GMT   ·   Nº 1758
Private Lunar missions and the future of space tourism

15 April 2012

Teams from America, Europe and Asia compete for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At stake are $30 mln. The aim is to send privately funded mission to the Moon, to land a robot on its surface able to travel 500 meters and send back to Earth video, images and data. A rover has to reach the Moon before the end of 2015.






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