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Google bankrolls $30M moon contest:

Nearly 40 years after the USA beat the Soviets to the moon Internet giant Google said Thursday it will give $20 million to the first private group to land a roving robot on the lunar surface — a prize likely to start a 21st-century space race. 

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-09-13-google-moon_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip