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Planetary Radio

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

Airdate: Monday, September 24, 2007
Running Time: 00:28:52
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

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.

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Guests

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

Related Information

• Google Lunar X Prize
• SpaceX Update from Elon Musk