The Google Lunar XPRIZE

Currently 21 teams are competing in a contest involving some tough engineering and 30 million dollars

They have to:

• Get a lander and rover to the moon (expensive part)
• Go 500 meters on the moon
• Take video and send it home

Sounds like a short list when you write it like that, but it's literally rocket science. And robotics. And communications. And pretty much the coolest thing going on in the world right now!

Teams with crafts of some type announced:

Teams with the latest news:

• Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association: ARCA video journal entry 4
  2010-03-11 00:00:14 UTC
  
• WhiteLabelSpace: Advertisements From the Dawn of Human Spaceflight
  2010-03-09 22:00:11 UTC
  
• SELENE: Never stop discovering
  2010-03-08 18:00:20 UTC
  
• Astrobotic: Parts to battle lunar heat take shape
  2010-03-04 06:00:16 UTC
  
• SYNERGY MOON: Personal Satellite Diaries
  2010-03-03 00:00:19 UTC
  
• Selenokhod: Space&Fashion: mutual interest
  2010-02-28 22:00:21 UTC
  
• Part Time Scientists: Hell yeah, it's rocket science! - PTS in Hamburg
  2010-02-17 00:00:25 UTC
  
• Earthrise Space, Inc. (Omega Envoy): Omega Envoy Presents Mission Design At AAS GN&C Conference
  2010-02-12 02:00:18 UTC
  
• Team FREDNET: Google Lunar X PRIZE Mission Animation
  2010-02-10 22:00:17 UTC
  
• C-Base Open Moon: Community Innovation as Open Business Model
  2009-12-10 18:00:30 UTC
  
• Juxtopia® Group, Inc: Lunar Lander Underway
  2009-10-20 20:00:13 UTC
  
• Independence–X Aerospace: Lunar Space Program
  2009-09-30 16:00:23 UTC
  
• STELLAR: Team STELLAR Moving Quickly in the New Year
  2009-09-30 16:00:22 UTC
  
• Advaeros: Coming Soon!
  2009-09-30 16:00:22 UTC
  
• CHANDAH: Team CHANDAH Inaugural Entry
  2009-09-30 16:00:21 UTC
  
• LunaTrex: A question: Oshkosh AirVenture
  2009-09-30 16:00:21 UTC
  
• Odyssey Moon: Building the First Lunar Greenhouse
  2009-09-23 13:55:33 UTC