July 31, 2010 – Kent Town, South Australia - Aerogels Australia B&C has agreed to provide their aerogel based insulation products to Google Lunar X PRIZE Team Synergy Moon for use in their lunar lander and rover. “I would also like to offer my personal services to your team as a thermal Performance Engineer” says Aerogels Australia B&C Managing Director Simeon Caric. NASA uses aerogel based products for insulation of the Mars rovers, and in the next generation of spacesuits. Aerogel Super Insulation provides a solution based product to a broad spectrum of Industries. Aerogels Australia is currently providing products and services for commercial building insulation applications as well as the Apparel, Aerospace, Defence, and Automotive industries. Aerogels Australia is the Australasian supplier of aerogel insulation, the leading insulation product on the market. “Our primary role is to establish downstream links for the mass application of aerogel insulation, through the provision of information and services to third party Industries. As part of this process we see conducting research as a critical component to this role, and welcome the opportunity to support Private Industries in ‘Achieving low life cycle energy buildings & technologies in Australasia’.” For more information about Aerogels Australia, please visit www.aerogel.com.au. ABOUT TEAM SYNERGY MOON SYNERGY MOON is an eccentric, electrifying merge of the arts and sciences. We represent a collaboration of individuals from over 15 countries and our numbers are growing. We are an official team in the Google Lunar X PRIZE, and also pioneers in human space travel and interplanetary exploration. Our technological innovations will make manned orbital travel, personal satellite launches, and Solar System colonization cost-effective, and above all, possible for everyone. Through aerospace research and development, rocket launch services, and a wide range of public events and awareness campaigns, we aim to inspire and invigorate humanity's desire to explore the Moon, Mars, and space beyond. For more information, please visit www.synergymoon.com. ABOUT THE GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million competition for the first privately funded team to send a robot to the moon, travel 500 meters and transmit video, images and data back to the Earth. The $30 million prize purse is segmented into a $20 million Grand Prize, a $5 million Second Prize and $5 million in bonus prizes. For more information about the Google Lunar X PRIZE, please visit www.googlelunarxprize.org. ABOUT THE X PRIZE FOUNDATION The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational nonprofit prize institute whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. In 2004, the Foundation captured the world’s attention when the Burt Rutan-led team, backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, built and flew the world’s first private spaceship to win the $10 million ANSARI X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight. The Foundation has since launched the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics, the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, and the $10 million Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE. The Foundation and its revolution partner BT Global Services are creating prizes in Exploration (Space and Oceans), Life Sciences, Energy & Environment, Education and Global Development. The Foundation is widely recognized as the leading model for fostering innovation through competition. For more information, please visit www.xprize.org.