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in 1919 New York hotel magnate ray or Teague launched a twenty-five-thousand-dollar prize for the first person who could fly from New York to Paris non-stop it took eight years for a man to win that prize Charles Lindbergh and ultimately that kicked off the transatlantic flight system 10 years ago a company called Scaled Composites won the 10 million dollar and sorry x prize being the first company to take us up to the edge of space and back down again kicking off what will be ultimately a very lucrative space tourism market the latest prize is the google lunar xprize 30 million dollars worth of prizes to the team that can get us all the way to the moon it's like a game of cards everyone is playing but there must be a winner we are going to the moon we are very confident on winning x prize we're down to 18 teams now all of whom are gathered here in Budapest for the annual team summit the teams are kind of helping each other out but don't forget they're also competing it's only the first one that gets to the moon and drives 500 meters and send us back live video it's eligible for the 30 million dollars in prizes over the next year you're going to see a lot of activity from our team we're gonna be working every day and tell me lunch now in addition to the 30 million dollar prizes there's six million dollars worth of cash up for grabs over the course of the summer of 2014 these are called milestone prizes and five teams are eligible for those prizes teams that are part of the XPrize already felt that what they were doing was important but the fact that teams can earn money while they're doing what they need to do any way to get to the moon is substantial over this summer we're going to be visiting all five of those milestone teams in the u.s. Germany Japan even in India to see their test we're going to see Rovers driving around courtesy rockets firing honor it's gonna be pretty awesome stuff and you will not want to miss it I believe this entire Google X pies and pop time sinus is pretty awesome you get to learn so much more things that you would have never come in contact with in your normal life we are participating in something very special and very very great thing i'm tim stevens was seen at and join us for the rest of the courage of the milestone test for the google lunar xprize