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Podcaster: Host: Dr. Pamela Gay

GLXP-700x700Title: GLXP Team Hangouts 015: Dreams of the Moon

Organization: Cosmoquest ; Google Lunar XPrize

Link : http://cosmoguest.org ; http://lunar.xprize.org/

More about MOONBOTS: A Google Lunar XPRIZE Challenge: http://moonbots.org

More about Team Puli: http://lunar.xprize.org/teams/team-puli

More about SpaceIL: http://lunar.xprize.org/teams/team-spaceil

Description: From Tel Aviv and Budapest, to the Moon! Google Lunar XPRIZE teams Puli Space Technologies and SpaceIL join up with a Moonbots team and Dr. Pamela L. Gay of CosmoQuest for an interview behind-the-scenes on their Moon missions, space dreams, and robotics competition building! A space Hangout on Google+ full of insights into engineering, going from a student to a legend, and disruptive innovation.

Overview: A global team of scientists and engineers are all working toward constructing missions to land on, travel across, and send video back from the Moon. With this new Google Hangout on Air series, we will introduce you to the men and women behind each of these planned missions and bring you all the latest developments from the +Google Lunar XPRIZE.

Bio:  Dr. Pamela Gay is a professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville and Project Director of Cosmoquest
Team Puli: Dr. Tibor Pacher (team leader), Mátyás Hazadi
Team SpaceIL: Yoav Landsman

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