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Article: Space hopefuls keep eye on Google Lunar X PRIZE
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- February 23, 2008
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Adil Jafry knew little about space. But when he heard there was a
$20million prize for the first team that could build a privately
funded spacecraft and land it on the moon by 2012, he figured he
could learn.
The 35-year-old energy executive, who was born the same year NASA
ended its Apollo missions, snatched up 26 books from Amazon.com two
months ago, and has been reading such titles as "Destination Space:
Making Science Fiction a Reality" ever since.
"So here I am," he said Thursday, as the first 10 teams
registered to compete in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition were
revealed at Google headquarters in Mountain View. "I'm doing this
for my children."
But make no mistake about it, ...