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United States Press Coverage

Name SYNERGY MOON's lander

Mark Posen, a team member of SYNERGY MOON, an official competitor for the Google Lunar X-PRIZE, has written to corrected an earlier report on their contest to name the team's landing vehicle. It's the Lander, not the Rover. Mr. Posen of eacademy.com Emailed more than a week ago to say the multinational SYNERGY MOON team is sponsoring a contest not to rename it's Tesla Robotic Rover but rather, the team's Lander....
> lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2009/11/synergymoon-lander-naming-contests.html

Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot

It's been 36 years since NASA's last Apollo lander left the moon's surface. But while the agency's plans to return humans to the moon remain confused, a pack of private teams are racing to send robots to kick up lunar dust and claim the $20-million Google Lunar X PRIZE announced nearly two years ago...
> newscientist.com/article/dn17555-rovers-rev-up-for-googles-moonshot-jackpot.html

SYNERGY MOON Enters Google Lunar X PRIZE

MOJAVE, Calif. (February 27, 2009) --The ambitious dream of returning to the Moon - this time to stay - is alive and well in a magnificently diverse team of space enthusiasts, artists, engineers, students, and explorers jointly called SYNERGY MOON, the latest entrant in the X PRIZE Foundation's Google Lunar X PRIZE. The team, comprised of 48 members from 15 countries across the globe, is sponsored by eSpaceTickets.com, the world's oldest space tourism contest organization. SYNERGY MOON has also partnered with rocket manufacturer Interorbital Systems (IOS), which competed in the historic 2004 ANSARI X PRIZE $10 MM Race to Space......
> xprize.org/media-center/press-release/synergy-moon-enters-google-lunar-x-prize

SYNERGY MOON Team Enters Google Lunar X PRIZE

Congratulations to our colleagues Kevin Myrick and Nebojsa Stanojevic. Just one more indication that there is an interest in going to the Moon to stay...
> kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/2009/02/synergy-moon-team-enters-google-lunar-x.html

SYNERGY MOON

The latest entrant in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition is Team SYNERGY MOON, bringing the total number of teams to seventeen. I am excited to say that I am a member of this team...
> astronautforhire.com/2009/02/synergy-moon.html

New GLXP Team - SYNERGY MOON - Expanded Press Release

(MOJAVE, CA)-The dream of returning humans to the Moon-this time to stay- is alive and well in a magnificently diverse team of space enthusiasts, artists, engineers, students, and explorers called SYNERGY MOON, the latest entrant in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. SYNERGY MOON is an international scientific consortium comprised of 48 members from 15 countries...
> spacefellowship.com/2009/02/27/new-glxp-team-synergy-moon/

SYNERGY MOON Discuss Entering the Google Lunar X PRIZE

The Space Fellowship recently reported on the Google Lunar X-PRIZE's latest entrant "SYNERGY MOON". InterPlanetary Ventures, the Human Synergy Project, and Interorbital Systems have joined forces to compete in the Google Lunar X PRIZE race to the Moon, which offers $30,000,000 in prizes for competition winners. The SYNERGY MOON team includes working groups in over a dozen countries, promoting international cooperation in space exploration and development...
> spacefellowship.com/2009/03/10/synergy-moon-discuss-entering-the-google-lunar-x-prize/

European Press Coverage

Oct 2009

Coin has Taken Him Around the World

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Miroslav Ambrus-Kis, first Croat in space

> javno.com/hr-hrvatska/miroslav-ambrus-kis-prvi-hrvat-u-svemiru_275458 (In Croatian)
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Journalist first Croat in space

> vecernji.hr/vijesti/vecernjakov-novinar-bit-ce-prvi-hrvat-svemiru-clanak-18078 (In Croatian)
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Tesla Gets Eyes and Ears

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Who can Become Astronaut

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Asian Press Coverage

"Google Lunar X" Ten lunar rover Design Awards

According to the British "New Scientist" magazine, from NASA's "Apollo" was the last time to leave the Lunar Module the lunar surface to the present, has 36 years history. While NASA astronauts set to return to the moon program, but the plan is only a confused impression with this sharp contrast, some private teams are to compete for approximately 20 million U.S. dollars, established two years ago, "Google Moon X "prize and do not give way, want to be ahead of competitors by developing a robot to the moon surface...
> scitech.people.com.cn/BIG5/9905589.html (In Chinese)
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Lunar prize sets Asian hearts racing

Keep in mind that it costs US$30,000 just to get your foot in the door, and this fee will increase next year. "We have always told prospective teams that the registration fee would escalate with time. It was $10,000 until the end of 2008, it is $30,000 now, and it will rise to $50,000 next year, after which registration will close," said William Pomerantz, senior director for space projects at the X PRIZE Foundation...
> atimes.com/atimes/China/KD03Ad02.html