The Google Lunar X PRIZE announced 10 teams for the race to Space on February 21. They include Odyssey Moon, Astrobotic,Team Italia, Micro-Space, the Southern California Selene Group,LunaTrex, FredNet, ARCA, Quantum3, and Chandah. These ten teams represent many different ideas and many different nations and each brings exciting new concepts to the competition. We are thrilled to welcome each of them to the competition and we hope you will join us as we follow along with their progress. Each team will be keeping blogs and posting photos and videos online: be sure to visit www.googlelunarxprize.org often to keep up with the latest!
We also announced a new Preferred Partner, Space Florida, who is providing a $2 million bonus to any team that launches from Florida.