Odyssey Moon: Making History with Google Moon Prize

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Odyssey Moon aims to achieve a historic milestone by launching a robotic lander to the Moon without government funding, competing for a portion of the $30 million prize from Google and the X-Prize Foundation. The initiative seeks to promote low-cost space missions and stimulate research in the field. Participants express curiosity about the financial aspects, questioning the costs associated with developing and launching a robotic lander. There is skepticism about whether the mission can be completed profitably within the prize amount. The discussion highlights the challenges and ambitions of private space exploration.
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Odyssey Moon says it wants to "make history" by sending a robotic lander to the lunar surface without any government funding.

The company is competing for a share of a $30m prize offered by Google and the X-Prize Foundation, designed to stimulate research into low-cost space missions. [continued]
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If I had the money and materials, I would love to go out and get my engineering buddies to make a team to enter this competition. How much would a robot lander cost and how much to send it to the moon? I can't believe it would be less than $30million unless we'd not be doing this for profit.
 

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