LunaTrek team leader Peter Bitar announced on Tuesday that his Google Lunar X Prize group expects to close a deal for three acres of land on which to build a mission control center. The facility – located at Anderson Regional Airport in South Carolina – will be the control center for its lunar rover. LunaTrek also is working on getting other customers to run satellites and spacecraft from the center. […]

More doings over at Google Lunar X Prize Cnet News “The non-profit organization announced Thursday it will introduce two new Google Lunar X Prize teams to the world on December 16 via a teleconference set up at Google Headquarters….Team LunaTrex will also have an announcement to make at that time, according to the X Prize Foundation.” “Then on December 17, Google and the X Prize Foundation plan to reveal the […]

The Discovery Channel has an interview with the leader of Mystery, Inc. “Mystery Team” that is aiming to win the Google Lunar X Prize competition by landing a rover on the moon. The American-based group is composed of members from several states.

The mysterious leader says they are staying private for now so as to get the drop on the competition and to avoid any risks to their reputations. He says they may reveal their secret identities by the end of the year, at the latest next July. Not that many people will really care. Or that they really care that no one cares.

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