I originally wrote and published this on The Launch Pad The Google Lunar X PRIZE may seem like a simple tech competition. Except that it's not. GLXP is a human story. It's about ambition, overcoming disappointment, and hard work. It's about dreaming something big and then setting out to do it. Think for a second... Continue Reading →
Some kids spend their weekends watching TV and playing video games. Moonbots team "Just Ducky" plans missions and programs Moon rovers. In preparation for the Podcast, they took the advice they found in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy": A towel is one of the most useful things in the Universe. They did the show with... Continue Reading →
Robert and Sebastian join Michael again to talk more about their Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. They reveal a number of goals that go well beyond just trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE like a new brushless motor and a distributed antenna network (Michael volunteered to put one on his... Continue Reading →
Joining Michael today is Bobby Cohanim from the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Next Giant Leap. (psst, they have a great video on their site) Bobby works for Draper, a partner to the team on their hopper. They work with MIT on the effort; both undergrad and grad students are working on the program, and... Continue Reading →
Today Michael catches back up with the Google Lunar X PRIZE team Part Time Scientists. You can follow them and all of the amazing things they are doing at part-time-scientists.com BTW, their current Facebook status is "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." Plus they have the coolest T-Shirts ever: Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment... Continue Reading →
The topic of the week seems to be Open Government. Fantastic! NASA is open by design, and the public support is vital because it's the public that pays for their projects. Contrast this to private industries where public support is not important. Let's say I have a new product idea and I develop a prototype... Continue Reading →
@csete is building open source communication and video processing subsystems for Google Lunar X PRIZE @TeamFREDNET @cariann is working to bring space news into your daily life South Korea is trying really hard to get their own rocket into space. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express is discovering crazy things about Methane on Mars.... Continue Reading →
In our second podcast, Michael has a great conversation with Will Pomerantz (@Pomerantz) of XPrize.org. We get the skinny on how the Google Lunar X PRIZE is changing the face of the spaceflight landscape. Email podcast@evadot.com or leave a comment and let us know your thoughts. Subscribe to the Evadot Podcast via iTunes and all... Continue Reading →
The Lunar X-Prize site is featuring a design idea by the Selene team which really pushes on traditional thoughts about what landers might look like and how they work: We are now pursuing a new lunar rover concept which involves deploying a rover that hovers above the lunar surface once the lander is secure on... Continue Reading →
Doug Messier over at Parabolic Arc had a post today about the transition from SpaceShipOne to SpaceShipTwo in which he postulates: That’s a big leap - maybe too much of a leap. Scaling up a small experimental rocket plane — and its carrier aircraft, the WhiteKnightOne — seems to have proven to be a bigger... Continue Reading →
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