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

2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 10 We want your support Space agencies Companies Universities

11. 11 We are going to the Moon. Are you? We are going to the Moon. Are you? www.googlelunarxprize.org