Google Lunar X Prize

Google has announced $30M for the team to gets a Lunar Rover by 2014. Very cool! Summarized well by Jeff Foust

Bringing space travel closer (or one step before it – the rover) is exciting stuff for me, must be for Larry too!

Its interesting to note the high tech entrepreneurs role in commercializing space industry – Elon Musk with SpaceX and Paul Allen invested in SpaceShipOne of X Prize, Jeff Bezos with his Blue Origin, building a spaceship