A moon rover tackles the Alps and a cave:

PTS@Dachstein, Juergens summary of day 1

Huge rover vs. NASA tests. Who wins?

Find out:

Brand new rover action!

Caves, mountains, and NASA test beds:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/blog/lunar-roundup-rover-action-reel

[+Part-Time Scientists's Asimov as just one of the robot action heroes this week:]

China released some photos of their Change'-3 Moon Lander...

Check out that pit! Don't fall in!

She's a pretty big gal:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=26848.msg10494

+Astrobotic 's Polaris rover in action again, this time at +NASA's Glenn Research Center:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151662015245769&set=a.492677435768.267573.52513425768&type=1&theater

+Barcelona Moon Team visited an awesome antenna facility in Chile:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/barcelona-moon-team/blog/barcelona-moon-team-attends-glxp-team-summit-%E2%80%93-part-three

This is what it's all about. Robotics students help out one of their physically disabled classmates by creating a robotic door locker that he can open from his chair.

http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20130505/NEWS01/305050012/Unlocking-independence-Students-create-robotic-locker-opener-classmate

This week in the #GLXP...

Ah, yes. Finally. The new trailer for "Ender's Game" is up. One of my favorite sic fi novels.

ENDER'S GAME -- Trailer

Remember the sun? Sometimes we take it for granted but it's always there and it's always amazing.

Here's a cool article by The bad astronomer.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/07/the_sun_picture_of_a_small_sunspot_bigger_than_earth.html

+Earthrise Space, Inc. tackles 20 awesome space innovations happening now:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/omega-envoy/blog/20-current-space-innovations-be-excited-about

[The Orion spacecraft.]

Excavation testing! This is how rovers will pick up lunar soil. From +Astrobotic:

These are the droids you're looking for!:

Book your place in space with Virgin Galactic today. I can't believe I can say that and not be joking. Check out this article in the Los Angeles Times.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-75704458/

A great article from +Aviation Week:

"This is the first step to commercializing the Moon.” - Leo Camacho

Oh, just hobnobbing with the president of Israel.

The teams were being completely awesome---as usual---this week:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/blog/lunar-roundup-statesmen-and-space-mining

Space mining, explained (by one of our teams---+Moon Express):

Rocket science! With some awesome test videos:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/astrobotic/blog/rocket-testing

(From +Astrobotic)

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The first mockup of our rover has been finished. It will be used for initial concept checking.