Google Lunar X PRIZE Hardware Reel 2010

[8ooresonanceoo8]

"Revolution through competition?" With that attitude we're not getting anywhere and I doubt there will be a serious future for space exploration. Revolution through collaboration is our best hope.

[makisupa110]

@8ooresonanceoo8 Yeah like the race to the moon in the 60s, right? Oh wait.

[8ooresonanceoo8]

if the countries worked together to engineer the mission, who knows how much sooner and more efficiently it could have been executed. Much more progress could be made if the people of the world pooled together their resources to engineer missions. @makisupa110

[savemyplaylist]

@8ooresonanceoo8 how do you think that computer you're using was build? Fucking idiot, get a clue. This world works on competition. Ever heard of the space race?

[Erikmoster]

simplemente asombroso

[RobertDRichardsISU]

[reply to stockpotato] Both Odyssey Moon and Next Giant Leap footage in the video shows lander development.

[stockpotato]

There are some good ones in there. But so far no lunar lander. None of the the teams from the Lunar Lander Challenge believes their technology will work on the moon, at least from what I heard from Armadillo Aerospace. Should the X PRIZE offer another prize for an actual lunar lander that wins if it delivers one of the GLXP team rovers to the surface of the moon? Otherwise, I don't really think you will make it, (not unlike Apollo). It takes a lander!

[Hippiephoenix]

@stockpotato The physical lander, although an integral part of getting to the moon, is something that many groups here can't test in Earth gravity, or even Earth's atmosphere due to fuels being used. It is the one part on these types of projects that goes from prototype to final model entirely in computer simulation, much like the Boeing 777, so most groups wouldn't have one built yet.

[stockpotato]

@Hippiephoenix The 777 had ample precedent to validate computer simulation. But that is not true of a lunar lander.

[Danukeru]

@stockpotato I'm sorry, but I have to strongly disagree. The very nature of the problem of simulating an aerodynamic frame in flight is MORE than ample precedent to simulate flight within a vacuum.

Not to mention that pretty much everything produced by the Apollo program is in the public domain by now.

[stockpotato]

@Danukeru One of the big problems is that vertical motion has a six-fold difference in gravity, but horizontally it takes just as much energy to accelerate 1kg on the moon as it does on the earth.

[Danukeru]

@stockpotato So what you're saying is that planes don't have to worry about gravity...riiiight...

[revrev321]

Love it! So happy to see so much progress. Great work, teams!