Monday, April 28, 2008

Quantum3 News: Deale's man in the moon

Leading private team in race back to the moon
By E.B. FURGURSON III, Staff Writer

South County - HometownAnnapolis -- If it all works out, some new-age spaceflights might just be controlled from the Deale Space Flight Center.

He's half-joking, of course, but Liam Sarsfield, a former NASA engineer and a pioneer of small-scale space exploration, could tweak his team's Google Lunar X PRIZE team's moon shot and other flights from his home office along Parker Creek.

"Why not?" he said with a sly grin.

He and his colleagues at Quantum 3 Ventures, headquartered in Vienna, Va., comprise one of 10 teams working to win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE competition.

The challenge? Be the first private enterprise to land a craft on the moon and transmit video and data back to earth to prove it.
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