Tom Baumbach, Dynetics President, and Tim Pickens, Rocket City Space Pioneers team leader, speak at the Google Lunar X PRIZE Summit on October 4, 2010.
Thanks to Clark Lindsey at Hobby Space for finding these clips.
Tag: Rocket City Space Pioneers
Tim Pickens Leads Powerhouse Group into the Google Lunar X Prize
ROCKET CITY SPACE PIONEERS PRESS RELEASE
Sept. 7, 2010
Today, the Rocket City Space Pioneers – a group of Huntsville businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations – announced their official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to the Moon a privately funded spacecraft capable of completing a series of exploration and transmission tasks. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Team Rocket City Space Pioneers is comprised of seven organizations and is among twenty-three teams from a dozen countries that are registered in the competition.
The Rocket City Space Pioneers, led by Huntsville-based company Dynetics and comprised of Huntsville partners Teledyne Brown Engineering, Andrews Space, Spaceflight Services, Draper Laboratory, the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the Von Braun Center for Science & Innovation, will compete for the Google Lunar X PRIZE with their lunar lander. Leading the team is Tim Pickens, Dynetics’ chief propulsion engineer. No stranger to space competition, Pickens was also the lead propulsion engineer for the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE winning SpaceShipOne team.