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» NASA's LRO Returns its First Images of the Moon
07/02/09 from The Launch Pad
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter returned its first images of the lunar surface today. How beautiful, that magnificent desolation...Visit the LRO homepage to view these images in high resolution. ...

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07/02/09 from neXt PRIZE
Rev up Your Company’s Innovation Engine with CandorBy Keith FerrazziI spoke at the X Prize Foundation’s Incentive to Innovate (i2i) Conference last month in NY. But when it was my turn at the podium, my take was that a conference abo...

» Friday Funday #FFD: A trip down Memory Lane
07/02/09 from The Launch Pad
It's with quite a bit of sadness that I embark on my final Friday Funday activity (a day early, since I won't be in the office on Friday). It's been an amazing journey, this past year, and I want to take a moment to reflect on it.Friday Fu...

» Evadot Podcasts with Google Lunar X PRIZE Teams
07/01/09 from The Launch Pad
The Evadot Podcast, hosted by Michael Doornbos, has been featuring several Google Lunar X PRIZE teams as well as the Foundation's Will Pomerantz. You can head on over to subscribe to the podcast, or check out the episodes so far using the ...

» Join our Team & Take the Challenge!
06/30/09 from Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
The Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE invites you to become a member of our team – our Carbonrally team. We are excited to be leading a team on Carbonrally.com, a website that develops honor-based competitions that call for small c...

» The Search for the Next @glxp
06/29/09 from The Launch Pad
I announced last week that I'll be leaving the Google Lunar X PRIZE, and while I certainly will not disappear from the community, we now need to begin the process of finding a rockstar community manager to take my place. What better place ...

» Friday Funday #FFD Space Map Wrapup
06/26/09 from The Launch Pad
View #FFD Google Lunar X PRIZE Fan Map in a larger mapA long while ago, we began building a map of cool space-related sites - and people - using Google Maps. Today we continued building on that map, and added a lot of really interesting po...

» Best. Sandbox. Ever.
06/26/09 from The Launch Pad
When I was a young boy, my family had a small, hand-built sandbox behind our house just outside of Buffalo, NY(w00t! Representin' the 14221!). The sandbox was a fun place for a young child to play--but also was a place that sparks creativi...

» The Question of the Day
06/25/09 from The Launch Pad
To paraphrase one of my favorite artists of all time: y'all will have read that Mike F is soon to be no longer with us, but Nicky, Rovey, and I would like to carry on the good work that's always gone down at 5510 Lincoln.We're sad to see Mi...

» Demonstration Division: True Communities versus Geographically Concentrated Employers
06/25/09 from Healthcare X PRIZE
An attempt to answer a frequently asked question regarding the "community" questionQuestion: Your philosophy states that "The likely location of the test communities will be from the states where WellPoint has markets". We are a community...