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An interview with Google Lunar X PRIZE team Moon Express, based in the USA. Public Outreach Liaison, Brad Kohlenberg, discusses The Moon and Me media campaign and what the moon means to him.

The first team interview from the Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit is finally here! This year I had the chance to sit down with every team to discuss their progress, as well as their struggles, as they work towards completing the $30 million prize. Some teams have met unexpected challenged where others have overcome incredible issues and odds. We all love the robots and the technology but this is a chance for everyone to hear the individual stories and find out more about the human side of the competition. Real people using real science to solve real problems.

Do you love LEGO and robots? Want to win a trip to the Island of Hawaii? Then get your camera ready and produce the most awesome MoonBots Video!

A couple of weeks ago at the Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Summit, an announcement was made that team Next Giant Leap has been acquired by Moon Express. As a well-established team with several valuable partnerships (such as Draper Labs and Sierra Nevada Corporation), NGL is undoubtedly a strategic asset for Moon Express; and it is worth noting that we fully expect to see more of these types of acquisitions and mergers occurring between teams as the competition progresses. In fact, X PRIZE considers these to be positive indicators of the maturation and advancement of the prize.

It’s the night of the big game. From the locker room you can hear the crowd maintain a steady roar that almost hums like television static in the background. You’re focused and your mind is in the zone. Final preparations are made before you finally take that slow-motion walk out of the entry tunnel and set foot on the stadium floor to a crowd of 20,000+ people, each one of them waiting intently to see what you’re capable of. This is the big show.