Google Sponsors $30 Million Moon Contest

September 13, 2007 By ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer

(AP) -- Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.

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