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    No One Met the $20 Million Deadline for a Civilian Moon Mission

    The prize for a Google-sponsored competition to send spacecraft to the lunar surface will now go unclaimed.
    by Marina Koren Jan 23, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: NASA / Reuters

    A Google-sponsored competition to reach for the moon has fallen short.

    More than 10 years after the XPRIZE Foundation announced a contest for proposals to send a robot to the moon, none of the participating teams will meet their deadline. The grand prize for the winner, $20 million provided by Google in a partnership with XPRIZE, will go unclaimed.

    “After close consultation with our five finalist Google Lunar XPRIZE teams over the past several months, we have concluded that no team will make a on Tuesday.

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