"grand challenge for the moon" ?

I didn't see this posted here,

it came from SeattleRobotics group on yahoo:

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Date: Fri Dec 2, 2005  1:28 pm
Subject: "Grand Challenge" for the moon  mtrivich


FYI

"NASA announced two new cash prizes Friday, each with a weighty
$250,000
purse, in a pair of contests aimed at developing robotic systems for
space exploration.

The space agency is challenging innovators to build an autonomous
aerial
vehicle to navigate a tricky flight path or robots capable of building
complex structures with only limited guidance from their human
handlers,
NASA officials said.

The contests - dubbed the Planetary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and
Telerobotic Construction challenges, respectively - are part of the
agency's Centennial Challenges
<http://www.space.com/news/050323_centennial_challenge.html>  program to
spur interest in commercializing space technologies. Both challenges
will make their competitive debut in 2007, NASA officials said."


http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/051202_robotics_challenges.html
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