Moon Express plans to broadcast Justin Bieber from the moon; while engineers from SpaceIL and Plan B give tours of their robots, Omega Envoy reveals their new Earth program, and Penn State Lunar Lion gains new senatorial support.
Three inspirational quotes from the teams as Newt Gingrich interviewed Penn State Lunar Lion; Euroluna detailed their plans; Stellar announced a contest; Plan B posted a new tech update; and more!
Moon Express revealed their landmark ILO-X space telescope (which will be both the first-ever private telescope in space, and the first live webcam from the Moon), while Newt Gingrich, Seth Green, and other stars lined up for the teams!
Moon Express explained how to become a billionaire (apparently, it's really easy), while Astrobotic broke out their moon mining scoop for some testing.
Some of the teams got visits from major statesmen, while Synergy Moon started building its final rovers and Moon Express gave a great explanation of space mining.
The Google Lunar XPRIZE teams traveled from Mars to medieval castles, and from Virginia Tech to Yuri's Night---showing off awesome technology along the way!
The BBC featured the Google Lunar XPRIZE (and an unprecedented inside look at Moon Express), while teams showed off rockets, rovers, cannons, and contracts.