Space fans keep eye on prize

From: Oakland Tribune | Date: February 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Adil Jafry knew little about space. But when he heard there was a $20 million prize for the first team that could build a privately funded spacecraft and land it on the moon by 2012, he figured he could learn.

The 35-year-old energy executive, who was born the same year NASA ended its Apollo missions, snatched up 26 books from Amazon.com two months ago, and has been reading such titles as "Destination Space: Making Science Fiction a Reality" ever since.

"So here I am," he said Thursday, as the first 10 teams registered to compete in the Google Lunar X PRIZE competition were revealed at ...

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