By Melia Spencer
Pittsburgh Business Times / March 26, 2010
The easy part may actually be getting to the moon.
Surviving there through a temperature swing of a scorching 120 degrees Celsius at high noon to a beyond frigid low of -185 degrees Celsius at night is another story.
But local researchers going after the Google Lunar X Prize think they have solved some key issues in their quest to win the $20 million purse and the prestige of being the first independent team to send a rover to the moon. [More]
