A new age space race, started back in 2008 by Google, to be the first to land a rover on the moon. The winner of the race will receive $20 million! Not much of a prize considering the costs involved with researching and building the actual lunar lander. But what a race! Imagine being dubbed the winner…not so bad, huh?
There are many teams out there competing, as the race has not had a winner as of yet. One of the teams out there is doing an open source team, FredNet, and they are going about the race the same way that Linus Torvalds went about creating Linux. I think this is a great idea because it will allow for many people to join in the race in any way they can. This opens the race to many who would otherwise never had the chance to compete. Having so many people supporting this one team will allow for many, many ideas as well as much more support than one would have going at this task alone. This is truly a remarkable feat. Team FredNet has a facebook page that I “Like” and so does Google (I also “Like”).
As far as I could tell, the main race page is located at http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/ and seems to be a blog. If you like the values or ideas that this race is undertaking, then you should try and support it in any way you can. It is probably the most human race that we have ever taken on. Go Google (and FredNet)! :)
FredNet has a page located at http://www.frednet.com/. If you can, perhaps you can donate to this great team and be a part of space history!
Oh! I almost forgot to mention that NASA has gotten in on the race as well. They are paying top teams at least $10,000 for any lunar data they uncover. This whole thing is wicked cool! Get involved in any way you can, you won't regret it!
Google’s facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/teamfrednet?v=wall#!/googlelunarxprize
FredNet’s facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/teamfrednet?v=wall#!/teamfrednet
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