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Get Your Mug on the Moon With the Lunar Legacy Program

In addition to the Robotic Moon Race that X Prize announced yesterday, they are also going to start the Lunar Legacy Program. The program will allow regular geeks like you and me to upload a 1MB image and a quick note that will then be copied onto a 17GB DVD and placed on one of the spacecraft heading toward the moon. (The upload will cost you $10.) Once it completes the journey to the moon, it will be left on the moons. Hopefully, the aliens that find the disc won't be using some advanced version of a cassette player. [Wired]

3:20 PM on Fri Sep 14 2007
By blongo3
1,653 views, 10 comments

Latest by entropyman: umm... if aliens are coming from across the universe - light years upon light years and they stumble across our solar system- why would they go to our moon, a dead hunk of rock? if they came that far wouldn't more »

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Google Putting $30 Million Into X PRIZE Robotics Moon Race

Google and X PRIZE are teaming up to offer $30 million in cash rewards to companies and organizations that can land a robotic rover on the Moon and do a bunch of mission objectives. Their first prize is $25M, second prize is $5M, there's an extra $5M in bonus stuff to the losers. More »

4:47 PM on Thu Sep 13 2007
By Jason Chen
2,703 views, 29 comments