• About Us
• Press Room
• Resource Library
• Shop
• Contact Us

Creating a better future by exploring other worlds and understanding our own.

• Explore
  • Featured Projects
  • Space Topics
  • Resource Library
  • The Planetary Report
  • For Kids
  • MER Update
• Connect
  • Our Experts
  • Our Members
  • Share Your Story
  • Sign Up for eNews
• Blogs
  • Bill Nye
  • Emily Lakdawalla
  • Bruce Betts
  • Casey Dreier
  • Mat Kaplan
  • Jason Davis
  • Guest Blogs
  • All Blogs
• Multimedia
  • Planetary Radio
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • Space Images
• Get Involved
  • Be a Space Advocate
  • Volunteer
  • Travel
  • Events
  • Contests
• Become a Member
  • Why Join?
  • Join Today
  • Renew Membership
  • Give Membership
  • Discovery Team
  • New Millennium Committee
  • Planned Giving
  • Corporate Giving
  • Other Ways to Give
• Donate

A New Race to the Moon: The Google Lunar X Prize

Air Date: 09/24/2007
Run Time: 0:28:52

Listen to the full show:

Or Download mp3

Guests:

• Elon Musk, Founder, SpaceX
• Peter Diamandis, Chairman, X Prize Foundation
• Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 Astronaut,
• Larry Page, Google co-founder,
• Shana Dale, Deputy Administrator, NASA

Topics:

The X Prize Foundation announced its newest competition a few days ago. The Google Lunar X Prize competition will award $20 million to the first private team to put a successful rover on the Moon, and there are other prizes as well. Buzz Aldrin, NASA's Shana Dale, Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk, and Google co-founder Larry Page join the celebration. Emily Lakdawall's Q&A wonders if life on Mars could have been blasted to Earth. And Bruce Betts knows a mouse that has a Planetary Radio t-shirt for our latest trivia contest winner. He joins Mat Kaplan to explore What's Up and announce a new space trivia contest.

Developed by Firefly Partners