by MICHAEL BELFIORE
A fleet of private and government-sponsored spacecraft is storming the solar system in the coming years.
2015 – Moon Express/Astrobotic/GLXP
The X Prize Foundation is offering the largest incentive prize in history, the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE. Two teams—Astrobotic (pictured above) and Moon Express—are neck and neck in the race to meet the 2015 deadline for landing a craft on the moon with 90 percent private funding.
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