Among the 17 nominating teams from 29 countries is the Hungarian Puli

The Hungarian space team Puli has officially been included in the final "start list" of the international competition called the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP).

The teams were able to enter the $ 50 million international competition for $ 30 million. The $ 500 million grand prize will be won by the team that not only is the first to bring a vehicle to the moon by a given deadline, but also makes at least XNUMX meters on its surface and sends a video back to Earth.
According to the organizers, from non-profit foundations to university teams to well-funded businesses, there was an extremely diverse composition of teams. Participants already include those who have also rented space on the spaceships that deliver the robots to the moon.

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According to an online video statement by Peter Diamandis, president of the X Prize Foundation, when the competition was announced, they would not have dared to think that so many entry teams would come together. Diamandis is proud to announce that the nominating troops have already, with NASA alone, entered into various contracts worth tens of millions of dollars for their planned lunar missions.

The 50-strong Hungarian team of young scientists, engineers and volunteers from many other fields, collecting a $ 30 entry fee at almost the last minute, began work on the details of the mission after signing the Master Team Agreement, which crowned the registration. According to the team leader of the Hungarian Puli, Dr. Tibor Pacher, a physicist who is also involved in international space projects, if the financial resources are available, Puli's lunar orbit can reach the Moon in 2014 at the latest.
Anyone can support Puli's lunar mission and ideas about disseminating knowledge with the smallest offer of a thousand forints as a member of the Little Step Club, and with a more serious offer as a member of the Puli Starting Station community or in the form of other sponsorships.