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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is great news!<br><br><a href="http://www.chasetheglow.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chasetheglow.com</a><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tarry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 11th 2008 2:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is great news!<br><br><a href="http://www.chasetheglow.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chasetheglow.com</a><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tarry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 11th 2008 2:17AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[Can it be built out of Lego?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Homeboy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 1:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[I hope. I got a pile o' unused ones sitting right in front of me. Staring at me with cold, cold eyes...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CUBSWILLWIN]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 8:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA["Specifically, they need to show off a rocket-propelled vehicle and payload that 'takes off vertically, climbs to a defined altitude, flies for a pre-determined amount of time, and then land vertically on a target that is a fixed distance from the launch pad.'"<br><br>Didn't NASA already accomplish that with the Apollo missions?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fred]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 1:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think the idea is that when private institutions attempt the venture, and given the advances in the last 40 years, they will find efficiencies where the massive bureaucracy of NASA did not which will help make space travel more available, in time, to the common man in much the same way that air travel is available to the common man. <br><br>phew... run on sentence!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 1:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's great:  You build us something that kicks ass, we'll give you a prize that might offset your costs by 1%, and then we'll club you over the head and take your technology. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nostromo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 1:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[Everyone can participate but hawaiians.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magallanes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 1:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[Go Armadillo!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Spencer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 2:26PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[So it's like "X-Prize, Part II".  Nifty.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kevin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 3:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, this is not the same as that other Google-funded X-Prize lunar landing?<br><br>And, didn't NASA or one of their contractors attempt this with the McDonnell Douglas DC-X?  The vertical take-off and landing rocket that failed during landing on one of the tests. So, that got scrapped immediately.<br><br>Hopefully private firms can do something better.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[octoberasian]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 3:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hey, for a second there I was thinking that's a REALLY BIG prize for a REALLY OLD computer game!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Tooke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 3:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[$2 million dollars?  is that a joke?  our own space agency can't even afford a prize 1/15 the size of the Google Lunar X PRIZE.  Maybe someone competing for the X PRIZE will have enough pitty for NASA and swing by New Mexico to compete.  Even then the prize money wouldn't cover the travel costs for a small team.<br><br>Good luck NASA.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 4:38PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[does a giant jet-pack count? then when it runs out of fuel, i can just glide down to the target (and die)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DarkAardvark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 5:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[We landed about 50 years ago and haven't done anything in terms of man in space since then. Its disappointing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 25th 2007 5:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Lunar Lander Challenge set to kick off with $2M at stake]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/25/lunar-lander-challenge-set-to-kick-off-with-2m-at-stake/</guid><description><![CDATA[38 years ago actually... :)<br><br>(41 if you meant unmanned)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Marc-O]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 26th 2007 5:42AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>