News

A Ukrainian is Building a Moonwalker, Google Involved

By: Borys Sydiuk | 18.03.2016, 15:01

A Ukrainian emigrant from Donetsk region who now lives in Canada is going to build a moonwalker. Alexander Dobryansky and his son Sergei went to the final of the Google Lunar XPRIZE contest. Pretenders should design and build a moonwalker that will be launched to the Moon in 2017 and shall travel on the surface for 500 meter, make high definition photos and videos and transmit them back to Earth. The contest started in 2007, 16 team procceeded to the final. Those lucky 16 now cooperate with Hollywood studios and producer J.J. Abrams to make short clips we ofer you to view now.

The official teaser of the project

Other clips (you can see Alexander in the 4th clip where he talks bout his team called Plan B):

Science and technology

About Site

Sections

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies

Gaming

Most Interesting

AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE Some posts may contain affiliate links. Gagadget.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

var _merchantSettings=_merchantSettings || []; _merchantSettings.push(['AT', '10lpuJ']); (function(){var autolink=document.createElement('script');autolink.type='text/javascript';autolink.async=true; autolink.src= ('https:' == document.location.protocol) ? 'https://autolinkmaker.itunes.apple.com/js/itunes_autolinkmaker.js' : 'http://autolinkmaker.itunes.apple.com/js/itunes_autolinkmaker.js';var s=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(autolink, s);})();

(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-KDNH3DF');