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Moon Express, Space IL Lead Google Lunar Xprize As Critical Deadline Approaches

Pat Host

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

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Moon Express, Space IL Lead Google Lunar Xprize As Critical Deadline Approaches

Photo: NASA.

Moon Express and Space IL are the only two Google [GOOG] Lunar Xprize competitors to have produced the verified launch contracts required to stay in the $30 million contest beyond 2016.A third competitor, Astrobotic, promises to have a launch contract secured by the end of the year. Company CEO John Thornton said Thursday once Astrobotic fills its manifest, it will secure a launch contract, likely with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX). He said he was considering secondary options from other…

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