<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, odyssey moon]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, odyssey moon]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/odysseymoon http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/odysseymoon <![CDATA[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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