| A concept photograph of a legged moon rover from Team Italia. More than three decades after the last Apollo astronauts roamed the lunar surface, a disparate collection of universities, open-source engineers and quixotic aerospace startups are planning to launch their own robotic missions to the Earth's barren cousin. The return to the moon is part of the Google Lunar X Prize, a competition sponsored by the company with $30 million in prizes for the first two teams to land a robotic rover on the moon and send images and other data back home. |
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