Like the Ansari X Prize before it , the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration .
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon .
Like the Ansari X Prize before Moon , the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration .
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon .