"Moon Shot Web Series Follows the Great Lunar Robot Race" Topic

"First, there's just an empty field, and the echoing sounds of a hammer striking rock. Then after one last, loud blow, we suddenly cut to a sparse warehouse, where the hammer lands on a bolt attached to a strange-looking contraption. Parts of it are covered in gold foil. "Nice job," the bespectacled foreman says to an engineer. If the apparatus they're pounding into shape resembles nothing we've seen on Earth, that's because it's not meant for this world: This is a spacecraft, hacked together by regular humans, meant to go to the moon.

So opens the dramatic trailer for Moon Shot, an upcoming nine-episode documentary web series being produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot that aims to tell the stories of 16 teams competing for the Google Lunar X Prize. First announced in 2007, the Google-sponsored initiative called on privately-funded spaceflight teams to aim to be the first to land a robotic spacecraft on the moon. The first team to complete a lunar landing, have their rover travel 500 meters, and beam back high-def images to Earth gets $30 USD million in prizes. Currently, there are 16 teams still scrambling to meet the December 2017 mission deadline, with two teams having already secured launch contracts to the moon for next year…"
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