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Article: Tara Energy CEO Adil Jafry Joins Google Lunar X PRIZE.
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- February 27, 2008
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HOUSTON, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Tara Energy (Tara) announced today that Adil Jafry, chairman and CEO of Tara, will lead one of the first 10 teams to register to compete in the Google-sponsored robotic race to the moon, the Lunar X PRIZE challenge. Jafry's initiative has been named Team Chandah, translating to "Moon" in Sanskrit and the spacecraft will be named Shehrezade after his daughter. To qualify, teams were required to submit a technical plan and an entry fee.
"My goal is to catalyze commercialization of space, and bring advances in space travel, tourism, sciences and technology to the general public at large," Jafry said. "From a personal ...