The New Space Race
Phase
Completed
The New Space Race
$30 Million
Prize Purse
The Google Lunar XPRIZE was created with two goals in mind. To spur affordable access to the moon and give space entrepreneurs a legitimate platform to develop long-term business models around lunar transportation and to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, space explorers and adventurers to enter the STEM fields.
Prize Purse
- $20 Million Grand Prize
- $5 Million Second Place Prize
- $5 Million in Bonus Prizes - $1 Million Diversity Prize awarded in 2014
Additional Milestone Prizes
- $5.25 Million Terrestrial Milestone prizes awarded in 2012
- $4.75 Million In-Space Milestone prizes
Summary Video
The Grand Challenge
Space exploration had been in the exclusive domain of governments. Commercial exploration had not been a viable option, restricting creativity and resources of private markets.
How to Win
The winning team will...
Impact
- • Over 300 Million (USD) invested into Google Lunar XPRIZE teams
- • First private space companies created in India, Malaysia, Israel and Hungary
- • Government space agencies like JAXA and NASA partnered with Google Lunar XPRIZE teams
- • 260 new jobs created by Finalist teams
- • Technology advances in miniaturization and 3d printing
- • Legislation inspired by the prize: NASA’s recommendation to Space-Faring entities, Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act
- • STEM Education: 5 undergraduate dissertations, University class/course credit, 500,00 youth reached with MoonBots (Google Lunar XPRIZE for students) education and Google Lunar XPRIZE team interaction
- • 1000 planetariums worldwide show Google Lunar Prize Inspired Back to the Moon for Good dome show in 27 different languages
Prize Activity