• By Paul Boutin
    Nov 3, 2008 7:20 PM 0
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    23andMe advisor bidding for Google-backed prize with Google's help

    Land on moon, collect $30 million
    read more: #outsourcing, #xprize, #nasa, #odysseymoon, #google, #valleywag

    Startup hires Nasa to build its X Prize vehicle

    Odyssey Moon is an international partnership of guys with space cred on their resumes. They've hacked Google's $30 million Lunar X Prize contest brilliantly: Instead of hiring private contractors to build a lunar rover better and faster than Nasa's risk-averse bureaucracy, Odyssey Moon has hired Nasa to do the job as a contractor. Everybody wins! That is, as long as you think Odyssey Moon's vision of the Moon as an eighth continent paved with solar farms is a win.


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