Google Lunar X-Prize

Last night I attended a presentation by a local consortium including NCSU and private companies, trying to send a robot to the moon! http://www.teamstellar.org/index.htm
Project STELLAR is one of thirteen teams around the world racing to accomplish that goal first, and win up to THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS in prize money. The project director, Richard dell, will be coming to our class on Wednesday August 27 to talk about it. He will be accompanied by a solar system ambassador, Alan Rich. We need to do some intensive learning about the moon in class before Wednesday!