1 Bretton Alexander X PRIZE Foundation Executive Director for Space September 2007

2 What is the Google Lunar X PRIZE? $30,000,000 (USD) purse  $20m Grand Prize  $5m Second Prize  $5m in Performance Bonuses Open to world-wide competition Privately financed teams must:  Land a rover on Moon  Move at least 500m across lunar surface  Return two packages of high definition video and imagery called “Mooncasts” Bonuses encourage:  Roving further along the lunar surface  Visiting man-made hardware  Surviving a lunar night  Diverse teams

3 Announcement September 13, 2007 Statements of support:  11 Apollo Astronauts Presentations from:  Larry Page, Google  Sergey Brin, Google (by video)  Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11  Shana Dale, NASA  Elon Musk, SpaceX  James Cameron, Filmmaker (by video)  Arthur C. Clarke, Author (by video)

4 Radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity X PRIZE Foundation offers multi-million dollar prizes for technological breakthroughs  $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for Suborbital Spaceflight – won in 2004  $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE  $10 million Automotive X PRIZE  $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE Google Lunar X PRIZE will:  Create a global private race to the Moon  Excite and involve people around the world  Accelerate space exploration for the benefit of all humanity

5 Worldwide Interest Global media coverage, over 480 media stories within 24 hrs  China, Russia, Europe, Canada, Australia, India, Thailand, et al. Over 150 expressions of interest in first week  From at least 22 countries Signed 6 “Letters of Intent to Compete” within first week  Each team paid $1,000 (USD) deposit on registration fee  Four different countries

6 Public Participation Goal is to excite and involve people around the world  Allow every schoolchild, teacher, and person to participate in a way that government exploration never could Moon 2.0 harnesses the power and culture of the internet  Watch development of the teams  Vote on where rovers should land  Experience being on the Moon with the rovers Lunar Legacy program  Send images and videos to the lunar surface

7 Education Stimulate interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Education guides online  Elementary school  Middle school  High school Activities and resources:  Video demonstrations  Interactive tools  Bibliography Developed by St. Louis Science Center

8 For the benefit of all humanity Demonstrate a new paradigm of low cost exploration of the Moon  Enable significantly greater activity  Enable a broader range of capabilities Engaging private enterprise is essential to long-term sustainability of large-scale activity in space  Brings innovation and greater efficiency Unlock the resources of the Moon to help solve problems here on Earth, such as energy independence and climate change  Clean solar energy transmitted from the moon or space with solar collectors made from lunar materials  Greatly reducing carbon released into the atmosphere Once space exploration is no longer solely a government activity, space will be opened to the general public to participate directly as never before

9 Are Private Missions Possible? In 2006, NASA funded X PRIZE to evaluate a lunar prize  Extensive survey of CEO-level experts representing potential teams leaders, partners, and financiers  Predicted 8-10 teams worldwide  Over 70% believed that victory was possible within 4 years Challenges for teams  Fundraising  Power on the Moon  Surviving Lunar Night  Communications Bandwidth  Time-delay (2.5 second round trip)  Landing Mass  Landing Accuracy

10 We want your support Space agencies Companies Universities

11 We are going to the Moon. Are you? We are going to the Moon. Are you?