output alignment teams competing for the $ 30 million lunar robotics competition driven by Google and is confirmed.
"The private race to the moon is already underway," said Peter Diamandis, chairman of the X-Prize Foundation.
The prize goes to those who will make the first robot to be able to send video images as you travel 500 meters from the surface of the moon.
organizers hope to encourage competition and development of automated vehicles low cost space exploration.
Sponsored by Internet giant Google, the Google Lunar X-Prize will be contested by 29 teams from 17 countries.
Contestants have very different backgrounds, from non-profit consortium to universities, to businesses.
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With tickets purchased
The $ 30 million will be the first to send pictures after traveling 500 meters on the lunar surface.
Competition organizers first announced in 2007 - estimates that can have a winner for 2015.
Much of the equipment already purchased tickets to the moon for their robots. Astrobotic Technology, a group of Carnegie Mellon University has already sealed a deal with SpaceX, the company founder of PayPal, Elon Musk, in order to use the Falcon 9.
Meanwhile, space agency officials are also planning to send spacecraft to the moon PROVIAS.
One of them comes from the partnership between Russia and India, which like other Chinese origin, they calculate they can take off for the moon in 2013.
But the X-Prize promoters believe that the future of space exploration will be based on groups supported by private funds. According
Tiffany Montague, the division of space initiatives from Google: "The most successful and revolutionary discoveries often come from small teams of entrepreneurs." Bbc.co.uk
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