I wrote this business plan for White Label Space in October 2008.  My intent was to capture for the first time, in clear written form, our team's approach to rasing money and competing in the Google Lunar XPRIZE. I wrote this business plan after many months of team meetings, the first of which was on the 16th of March 2008. Steve Allen joined our little...

While scanning through my old messages I can across this photo from July 2008 when I first visited professor Kazuya Yoshida at his lab in Tohoku University to discuss partnering with our team to compete for the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Following my visit he agreed to join White Label Space as the lead for our moon rover development. ***

Japanese company ispace is ready to make history with its attempt to be the first private company to land a spacecraft on the Moon. We wish our former GLXP team members the best of success in this heroic effort! ***

The XPRIZE Foundation has announced that it will offer a $1 million “Moonshot Award” to former Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) competitor SpaceIL if its Beresheet spacecraft is able to successfully land on the lunar surface next month.  This news sort of explains something interesting that was visible in SpaceIL's Earth selfie photo below. Can you see what...

Former Google Lunar XPRIZE (GLXP) competitor, and Israeli nonprofit, SpaceIL has launched a (largely) privately funded spacecraft to land on the Moon. See Space.com article. The total budget for the mission is estimated at US$95 million.  Funding for the mission has predominantly been from private donations, most notably from Israeli billionaire Morris...

This week the Japanese space start-up ispace raised $90.2 million in funding to develop a lunar orbiter and a lunar lander, as their first steps towards building a transportation and lunar mining business.  ispace is framing its future roadmap as the Moon Valley project, which begins with the first orbiter and lander missions (M1 and M2) by 2020. After...