SYNERGY MOON TEAM ENTERS GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE

A snip of what Charles Radley posted to the space-renaissance-initiative
group.
http://groups.google.com/group/space-renaissance-initiative?hl=en

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Congratulations to our colleagues Kevin Myrick and Nebojsa Stanojevic.
Here is the press release:

Media & Sponsorships Contact:
Randa Milliron, Interorbital Systems
661.965.0771, ios@interorbital.com <mailto:ios@interorbital.com>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SYNERGY MOON TEAM ENTERS GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE

MOJAVE, Calif. (February XX, 2009) --The ambitious dream of returning
to the Moon - this time to stay - is alive and well in a magnificently
diverse team of space enthusiasts, artists, engineers, students, and
explorers jointly called SYNERGY MOON, the latest entrant in the X
PRIZE Foundation’s Google Lunar X PRIZE. The team, comprised of 48
members from 15 countries across the globe, is sponsored by
eSpaceTickets.com, the world’s oldest space tourism contest
organization. SYNERGY MOON has also partnered with rocket manufacturer
Interorbital Systems (IOS), which competed in the historic 2004 ANSARI
X PRIZE $10 MM Race to Space.
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Just one more indication that there is an interest in going to the Moon
to stay.
You might be interested in checking out the mission of the Space
Renaissance Initiative.
More information below.
- LRK -

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Space Renaissance is a new, global philosophy, having its basic ground
on Earth, and its natural development in the extraterrestrial space.
Our founding concepts are New Humanism and Astro Humanism. We look at
the past Renaissance (1500) as an inspiration for mecenatism and
capability to aim high, and to make great projects by means of good will
and mutual cooperation.
Among our scopes:
- to give birth to a Foundation
- to build a great school for graduates and post-graduate doctorates and
masters
- to build the philosophy and the culture of the Space Age, to help the
New Renaissance of Humanity in Space

The statute is in progress, and will be soon submitted to all the good
willing Terrestrians.

See also
http://www.spacerenaissance.org/
http://www.tdf.it/
http://www.spacefuture.com/

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http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams/synergy-moon
SYNERGY MOON

InterPlanetary Ventures, the Human Synergy Project, and Interorbital
Systems have joined forces to become SYNERGY MOON, the newest team to
enter the Google Lunar X PRIZE race to the Moon. With working groups in
15 countries, the SYNERGY MOON team actively promotes international
cooperation in space exploration and development. SYNERGY MOON will use
a lunar-direct launch of an Interorbital Systems’ modular NEPTUNE rocket
to carry a lunar lander and at least one rover to the surface of the
Moon before the end of 2012. That rover will, at a minimum, travel 500
meters across the lunar surface, and transmit video, images, and data
back to Earth. SYNERGY MOON will prove that an international,
private-sector team can do what has never been done before: move private
enterprise into space beyond Earth orbit.



California Space Authority Board Member Celeste Volz Ford commented on
the link between science and the humanities, "For the space enterprise
community to maintain its edge in the global space market, our future
workforce is going to consist of engineers who think like artists and
artists who think like engineers.” Speaking on the future of space
exploration, Nicolas Peter, a research fellow at the European Space
Policy Institute, commented “This adventure will be driven primarily by
a quest for knowledge, involving not only the hard sciences, but arts
and humanities as well.” The SYNERGY MOON team is unique in that its
members personify an eccentric, electrifying merge of the arts and sciences

Read more about team SYNERGY MOON
<http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams/synergy-moon/about>

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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