A private race to the moon ends anticlimactically. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/science/google-lunar-x-prize-moon.html …
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Not sure it's ended.
The _Google_ Lunar X Prize certainly ends March 31. Maybe they'll find another sponsor a la Westinghouse/Intel/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Science Talent Search.
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Or people will come up with other ways of generating revenue with the rovers. It may be that no one will ever send a rover to the moon, but I wouldn't bet on it. All that's ended is that specific purse.
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That's the semantic purpose of the "A" at the beginning of the sentence, denoting that this particular race is over. I didn't write, "No private venture is going to the moon ever."
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