Saturday, June 20, 2009

Lunar Prize Update - June 19-20, 2009

In celebration of LRO and LCROSS, today's post will be all about prizes with lunar themes:

Omega Envoy To Test X PRIZE Rover In Simulated Mars Mission On Devon Island - Omega Envoy - Today we are announcing an expedition in collaboration with 4Frontiers Corporation and the National Space Society to the Mars Socitey's Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) on Devon Island.

Giant Leaps Symposium - Next Giant Leap - I mentioned this MIT symposium in an earlier post or 2, and Next Gian Leap has some pictures from it.

@Regolith_Chal - Putting together some info on media exposure from last year for you all.

@OmegaEnvoy - At 1pm on austrian public radio Ö1 is airing Guido Meyer's report about the #glxp teams. We are on it! http://tinyurl.com/n4cjc4

@wikkit - One of the guys from TrueZer0, a unique rocket team, is here. Portends of a geeky dinner.

@dmasten - Just finished dinner with Scott of TrueZero.