Is Molly Goldberg part of the Israeli team competing for a Google prize to be the third nation to reach the moon?
Maverick and creative thinkers the Israeli trio appear to be: According to the X Prize organizers, the 29 competing teams will spend between $15 million and $100 million on the project, with the earliest launch not scheduled until 2013. The Israelis aim to spend less than that (around $10 million) and to launch before 2013.
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Best be careful with the “third nation” narrative, Roger. The plucky intrepid and resourceful India Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Chinese National Space Agency, and JAXA – Japan’s NASA – are likely to be rightly sensitive to the “third nation” category. If by “reach the Moon” distinction you meant “softly landed vehicle,” other than Soviet or U.S., you’d be right – even if the latter have not accomplished this tricky maneuver since the 1970′s. In the “deliberately crashed” category and in lunar orbit the ESA, JAXA, CNSA, and ISRO have each orbited the Moon – an accomplishment thought easy only by the people of the United States. (It’s not so easy.)