First Entrant for the Google Lunar X-Prize

Odyssey Moon announced their official entry into the Lunar X-Prize competition on December 6, 2007. Their Web site is live (but devoid of any details), but it’s nice to see a group of fellow dreamers step up.

From their Web site:

Odyssey Moon is the first team to complete registration for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. The company made its first public debut on December 6th at the Space Investment Summit in San Jose, California, unveiling its plans to make history with the first private robotic mission to the surface of the Moon and win the Google Lunar X PRIZE. The inaugural Odyssey Moon mission will involve a unique small robotic lander designed to deliver scientific, exploration and commercial payloads to the surface of the Moon.

I wish them the best of luck. If our government won’t do it, perhaps industry will.