How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner 173
An anonymous reader writes in with this link about the advances in China's lunar program. "A $30 million Google-backed competition to land a spacecraft on the moon may be about to be scooped. China's Chang'e 3 probe successfully put itself into lunar orbit on Friday in preparation for an attempted touchdown around Dec. 14. China won't be winning the prize money, which is reserved for privately funded, previously enrolled teams, not government agencies."
Re:Well really.. (Score:5, Funny)
. So they thought putting a lunar lander together takes a blog, two guys in a garage, github and attending a summit - they will all have Chinese beat by years.
No wonder they failed, they forgot to make a kickstarter page :)
Re: One small post for man (Score:5, Funny)
So what you're saying is that Firefly got it right?