Five teams have been selected in the final phase of the international Google Lunar X-Prize competition, which aims to send, landing and operating a spacecraft on the Moon with exclusively private funding.
The mission must have been launched from Earth by 31 December 2017 and the winner who arrives first, will win the first prize of 20 million. dollars. The second team will be awarded five million. dollars.
The winner should, also, to use a robotic rover or other spacecraft technology to cover a distance of at least 500 meters on the moon and send relevant high-resolution video to Earth.
The five teams participating in the final phase, according to the BBC and the Reuters agency, are the following: Continue at source ...