Recently Google started to join support for the the private “Space Race” competition, X-Prize.
Although the price money of 20 million is laughable little for such undertaking, with the Chinese, Japanese, Russians and the Americans (2nd time, why not..) governments having the same aim, its getting busy!
But does it make sense? Horizon has now online a documentary regarding Moon Economics, with quite some spectacular surprises.
If you lack time, run the last 10 minutes. GammaBlog has more.
