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.
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.
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.