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Google Sparks New Moon Race with $20 Million Prize

Google Sparks New Moon Race with $20 Million Prize | Science News | Scoop.it

Google has teamed up with the X Prize Foundation to offer a $20 million prize to the first private organization to land a spacecraft on the moon, move it 500 meters and send video back to Earth as proof.

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ScienceCasts: Mission to Land on a Comet

Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet-- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and land a probe on it for a front row seat as the comet heads toward the sun.

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[VIDEO] - Virtual Reality Tests Make Better Spacecraft

[VIDEO] - Virtual Reality Tests Make Better Spacecraft | Science News | Scoop.it
Lockheed Martin's Collaborative Human Immersive Lab (CHIL) uses human controlled avatars to help design, build and maintain the next generation of satellites and aircraft, saving expensive and difficult flight testing.
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