How does the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge relate to the Google Lunar X PRIZE?
The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge (NGLLC) is a $2 million dollar prize program the X PRIZE Foundation runs for NASA’s Centennial Challenges program. The Challenge rewards innovative private teams for building and flying vehicles that simulate the journey from lunar orbit to the surface of the Moon and vice versa. As such, the vehicles and technologies developed for the NGLLC (and the teams that are pursuing that prize) may play a significant role in the Google Lunar X PRIZE; helping to carry vehicles on the final steps of their journey from the Earth to the Moon.
