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Article: Space Florida Announces Strategic Partnership with the X PRIZE Foundation to Make Florida the First Preferred Launch Site for the Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition.
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- February 21, 2008
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Grand Prize Winner will receive $2M Bonus Prize for Successful Florida Based Launch.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. -- Space Florida, the organization charged by the Florida Legislature with promoting and developing Florida's aerospace industry, today announced that it will be a new preferred partner and Florida will become the first preferred launch site for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. Each preferred partner offers additional prizes or strategic services at a discounted rate to all competition teams.
As the first preferred launch site, Space Florida will award an additional prize of $2 million to the Grand Prize winner of the Google ...