I loved how they made Tim Allen (a.k.a. Buzz Lightyear) narrate this documentary it really fits his voice and making me listen more to it and of course informative
Why does a company that made $66 billion in 2014 not just fund a team to do this? If Google was really serious about it, take a SINGLE BILLION and give it to the Penn State Team (the only team I've seen so far that isn't all about profiting from the moon - I could be wrong on that though). Correct my math, but $30M is like 0.0000454% of $66B. A pittance, especially considering the actual cost is easily double to triple the $30M prize. Come on Google, use your influence and enormous checkbook to actually help mankind. I'm sure Mr. Page doesn't need another private jet.
+Greg Bechtel Profiting from the moon IS THE FREAKING POINT! That would keeps us there, pure science is fine, but it costs billions with little practical return.
I love this so much. Forget national pride, exploring space is something all humanity can and should be proud of. I'll cheer on every one of these teams or for that matter any country that decides to go back.
I think this event alone will mark a huge new cooperative margin for mankind. Way to go Google. If our existence is to remain intact and venture full through the cosmos. We have to all learn to work together with the prize of knowledge instead of currency. This is one step in the right direction I think.
Every invention worth inventing, goal worth achieving, and strive worth enduring will progress us as humanity in our common urge for a better tomorrow. And it all starts out with a sometimes foolish idea. 30 million won't get you to the moon and beyond. But it's the idea that counts. I see a divide between the ones being conservative and stuck in their theists ways, and those who dare to look beyond and expand their knowledge and capabilities into what others would call divine. Takes hat of for Google. Well played, dear Sir's
30 million would work,providing American,Russian,Japan,India,China,Europe assisted with a free rocket ride.India ,likely could come in the cheapest,but I doubt they would do it for free.
Our best chances will be SpaceX. Their costs will diminish drastically when they start refurbishing launchers. Nowadays an Arianne or a Delta launch can carry the largest payload, but are also the most expensive. The Falcon however will have a tough time reaching the moon, to land we need two launches. Queue the Falcon Heavy, and in the future Falcon XX heavy. And then even a trip to Mars will be peanuts, mass wise. This can be a great time to live in. At least if the old farts don't fuck up again and crash the global economy with their greed.
This is the best Documentary about the moon i have seen in years . Thank you Google I know its not a true Documentary . I wish it went for longer then it did.
Man how much would it cost to build and fire off a rocket that powerful? Am I way off base in assuming a 30 million dollar prize might just barely cover the development and mission costs?
Teams have mission budgets generally from around $30-$60 million, including the cost of buying a launch. In prizes like this and the Orteig Prize (which Charles Lindbergh won by flying over the Atlantic; now he's a household name), the winners often spend more than the prize amount, as the attention and acclaim is often worth much more! The prizes offer an incentive for very smart folks to start working on the problem, and get an incentive for cracking the right solution :)
Elias M The obvious problem is that getting to the moon requires a ton of thrust even for getting small things on the moon. If you want to go for a secondary cargo on a larger rocket, your vehicle is gonna have to be quite small and still have enough fuel to get to the moon and land. Honestly, I'd be surprised if the Long March 2C chinese vehicle mentioned is even large enough to get your rover to the moon even as the only cargo. Though the Falcon 9 is certainly large enough to carry a moon mission as potentially secondary cargo, and the Falcon Heavy could potentially carry a dozen
Jerk Douglas If you use: SRB for the launch into orbit, a small engine with high ISP of the transmunar injection manouver (I would prefer the ion drive), RCS attitude control system (insted of the complicated reaction weels system) using nitrogen, a basic navigation system (It would use stars to get the attitude angle data) you could use the gyroscope but they are quite expensive, a medium range communication dish (about 3x as powerful as the TV dish that is used to recive the signals from the geo stationary orbit satelites), some common computer components that would be sealed inside a container with 1 atmosphere pressure and some heating and cooling systems to keep electronics from freezing or melting and some cameras (you could use the phone cameras) sealed inside a special container with a small glass window. For the landing stage you would need at least the trust to weight ratio atleast about 3. If you make a suicide burn you should get a pretty cheap landing. I don't know wich weels should be used but I think that the aluminum dezine should work just fine.
Great Google! One idea came into my head, what if to use lunar ice as fuel. Enough just to heat the ice using Solar energy to turn it into boiling water and than into a steam (Newtons 3rd Law). This can give opportunity to travel back to Earth or somewhere. P.S. Dniper-1 it's Ukrainian rocket not Russian (13:00).
This Video is Beautiful! I'm going to Download it as soon as I am ABLE! Thank You So Very Much for Posting this! Peace Be Unto You All and GOD Bless! Jane.
wonderful video and exploration i liked, i understand and i will enjoy this video. thank you so much for team. i have much share this video. thank you all team. I love space.
I could live to see colonies start on the moon? That to me is simultaneously scary and exciting! Good luck to all the teams participating, and I hope they all achieve and exceed the goal of increasing mankind's knowledge of the moon, and making our voyages to it easier.
I think that the limitations on how teams could have received funding are what caused no one to win the actual competition. Am I right in saying it was canned either last year or the year before? Still, this kayfabed feature was very good. Interesting that it was released in 2013.
+Jacob S. I'm an aspiring filmmaker. The kind of guy who eats up Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, all that stuff. Aside from that, I'm interesting in engineering. Elon Musk, XPrize kind of stuff. So making a movie like that is right up my ally.
Come on Tim Allen! We need to send people, people to the Moon! We need a permanent base there so we can feel that we're actually doing something! Think how cool it would be to have a base where there's frozen water. We could see images of the Moon, astronauts building a permanent base, hydroponics, automated flights sending supplies, really exiting stuff, not just pictures (that won't even look real).
So I watched the whole video, and noticed the date of production was 2013. Per Wikipedia, via a Google search, the $30 million X prize went unclaimed, and the competition for prize money was over after Jan. 2018. However, 5 teams were fairly close, and I'll need to research anyone's success further.
You are smart enough! Teams are still looking for help, too, especially as they ramp up this year for their big launches: lunar.xprize.org/teams Big volunteer segments, and paid positions!
yes. I didn't recognize Tim Allen's voice until seeing his name in the credits. Either my hearing is getting bad or the video was too captivating to focus on the voice.
Except Mars has frozen and liquid water so with Mars you won't have to constantly send them supplies cause they'd be growing they're own food with they're own water but if we went to the moon there would be a lot of supply ships going to and from the planet with food and water I say we go back to the moon and go to Mars
I'm guessing it's harder than it looks... Then again I recall John Carmack saying something about programming being more difficult and/or complex than rocket science or something like that.. idk
To everyone asking if 30 mil is enough, the cost to launch something in space is $10,000 per pound. So once in space slingshot from each minor corrections it really does not take that much to hit the moon.
"We do it not because its easy, but because its hard." Over the large amount of time we have been on this world, we have discovered so many things that have inspired people in one way or another to do things. We have seen so much of this amazing place, but we have seen so little of places out there. Its is no longer a question of 'can' or 'should' we do it, its a question of 'how' and 'why'. Just as it has in the past, space can drive the imagination and creativity of the living billions, and the unborn trillions.
The point of the challenge isn't to "make" $30 M because $30 M will barely cover half of the total cost of sending a rocket to moon. The point is for small companies to test out their project, while getting some money back, if rocket successfully lands it.
Where will I be when the prize is won? I have no idea. I don't know where I will be when a human sets foot on the Moon again, either. But when it happens, I know I will remember it for the rest of my life.
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I see that Luna is happily on the moon again. XD
lul i was just shown this xD
MasterNeutral1 Oh those nerdy people at google. ;)
xD
+1 for Google
XDXDXDXDXD lol XDDDDDDDDD
WOW!! Were going back to the MOON!!!!!! LOVE IT
Came for Moonbutt, stayed for science. Interpret that any way you wish.
Moonbutt is best science-race incentive, EVER. Take THAT as you wish... XD
She is... she really is
I like the reference but what interests me more is science
What are the names of the songs of the film ( soundtrack ) ??
I loved how they made Tim Allen (a.k.a. Buzz Lightyear) narrate this documentary it really fits his voice and making me listen more to it and of course informative
Why does a company that made $66 billion in 2014 not just fund a team to do this? If Google was really serious about it, take a SINGLE BILLION and give it to the Penn State Team (the only team I've seen so far that isn't all about profiting from the moon - I could be wrong on that though). Correct my math, but $30M is like 0.0000454% of $66B. A pittance, especially considering the actual cost is easily double to triple the $30M prize. Come on Google, use your influence and enormous checkbook to actually help mankind. I'm sure Mr. Page doesn't need another private jet.
+Greg Bechtel Profiting from the moon IS THE FREAKING POINT! That would keeps us there, pure science is fine, but it costs billions with little practical return.
Freakin ' amazing! I hope new technologies and innovations will continue to take us to space, the moon, & Mars.
Oh my God! This is insane. Absolutely insane! I am so looking forward to this. Good luck to all the teams! Wish all of you could land on the moon!
I watched this at school in electives and said "I WANNA DO THAAAAAAAT!!!!!"😂
But seriously, I do.
Me too man. Me too!
I was 11years old sat up agàinist th t.v.and thought I have to see this.🌌
7:27
PRINCESS LUNA! :O
Came here from EQD amIrite
Nightmare moon confirmed for season 5!
Google confirms that moon belongs to best princess
Alex Panx or for real life XD
SlimedGamer Memphis Instagram
Ecmemphis
PW IS billylynch
hats off to u awesome Tim Allen and Google this movie was my best short movie
Are teams allowed to shoot down their rival crafts?
Yes
I love that question.
Balee Tong best comment in weeks
+Balee Tong Battle Bots ON THE MOON! lol I'd watch that XD
I dont think so
I love this so much. Forget national pride, exploring space is something all humanity can and should be proud of. I'll cheer on every one of these teams or for that matter any country that decides to go back.
Beautifully produced. Some of the crispest photos imaginable. A positive storyline with a can-do attitude. Bravo folks!
At around 7:30, fans of a certain show will notice something interesting.
i just did a pony in that small moon
This is something more people should hear about, keep it up guys.
One of the best project ever did in humanity, now I have the real feeling to live in 2015. Well done Google!
I think this event alone will mark a huge new cooperative margin for mankind. Way to go Google. If our existence is to remain intact and venture full through the cosmos. We have to all learn to work together with the prize of knowledge instead of currency. This is one step in the right direction I think.
Came for the reference, Stayed for the info. It's really great to see things like these happen. I guess money indeed makes the world go round.
Every invention worth inventing, goal worth achieving, and strive worth enduring will progress us as humanity in our common urge for a better tomorrow. And it all starts out with a sometimes foolish idea.
30 million won't get you to the moon and beyond. But it's the idea that counts.
I see a divide between the ones being conservative and stuck in their theists ways, and those who dare to look beyond and expand their knowledge and capabilities into what others would call divine.
Takes hat of for Google. Well played, dear Sir's
30 billion got us to the moon 9 times,landing 6 of those times.Trust me,I know.
30 million would work,providing American,Russian,Japan,India,China,Europe assisted with a free rocket ride.India ,likely could come in the cheapest,but I doubt they would do it for free.
Our best chances will be SpaceX. Their costs will diminish drastically when they start refurbishing launchers. Nowadays an Arianne or a Delta launch can carry the largest payload, but are also the most expensive. The Falcon however will have a tough time reaching the moon, to land we need two launches. Queue the Falcon Heavy, and in the future Falcon XX heavy. And then even a trip to Mars will be peanuts, mass wise. This can be a great time to live in. At least if the old farts don't fuck up again and crash the global economy with their greed.
I truly hope I see in my lifetime our return to the Moon. And not just a return, but establishing a colony.
holy hell im so excited! my son is going to be a part of the greatest generation ever! so happy!
What comments should be : Wow, very informational
The comments : 7:30 LUNA
"Back to the moon"
huehuehue
Slender Mane Name of idea for season 5 hehehe
***** Like were gonna have an episode to do with the moon or luna
This is just so... right.
Including Tim Allen narrating.
I'm in love with the sky and beautiful stars, and more the people bring beautiful works and information, cool.
This is the best Documentary about the moon i have seen in years . Thank you Google
I know its not a true Documentary .
I wish it went for longer then it did.
This has to be one of the coolest things out there at the moment!
I can't wait to see how everything progresses.
Best of luck, teams!
Man how much would it cost to build and fire off a rocket that powerful? Am I way off base in assuming a 30 million dollar prize might just barely cover the development and mission costs?
It would be cheapest to buy an existing rocket, the lowest cost would still be about 60$ M.
Thought so.
Teams have mission budgets generally from around $30-$60 million, including the cost of buying a launch. In prizes like this and the Orteig Prize (which Charles Lindbergh won by flying over the Atlantic; now he's a household name), the winners often spend more than the prize amount, as the attention and acclaim is often worth much more! The prizes offer an incentive for very smart folks to start working on the problem, and get an incentive for cracking the right solution :)
Elias M The obvious problem is that getting to the moon requires a ton of thrust even for getting small things on the moon. If you want to go for a secondary cargo on a larger rocket, your vehicle is gonna have to be quite small and still have enough fuel to get to the moon and land. Honestly, I'd be surprised if the Long March 2C chinese vehicle mentioned is even large enough to get your rover to the moon even as the only cargo. Though the Falcon 9 is certainly large enough to carry a moon mission as potentially secondary cargo, and the Falcon Heavy could potentially carry a dozen
Jerk Douglas If you use: SRB for the launch into orbit, a small engine with high ISP of the transmunar injection manouver (I would prefer the ion drive), RCS attitude control system (insted of the complicated reaction weels system) using nitrogen, a basic navigation system (It would use stars to get the attitude angle data) you could use the gyroscope but they are quite expensive, a medium range communication dish (about 3x as powerful as the TV dish that is used to recive the signals from the geo stationary orbit satelites), some common computer components that would be sealed inside a container with 1 atmosphere pressure and some heating and cooling systems to keep electronics from freezing or melting and some cameras (you could use the phone cameras) sealed inside a special container with a small glass window. For the landing stage you would need at least the trust to weight ratio atleast about 3. If you make a suicide burn you should get a pretty cheap landing. I don't know wich weels should be used but I think that the aluminum dezine should work just fine.
Great Google! One idea came into my head, what if to use lunar ice as fuel. Enough just to heat the ice using Solar energy to turn it into boiling water and than into a steam (Newtons 3rd Law). This can give opportunity to travel back to Earth or somewhere.
P.S. Dniper-1 it's Ukrainian rocket not Russian (13:00).
This Video is Beautiful! I'm going to Download it as soon as I am ABLE! Thank You So Very Much for Posting this! Peace Be Unto You All and GOD Bless! Jane.
wonderful video and exploration i liked, i understand and i will enjoy this video. thank you so much for team. i have much share this video. thank you all team. I love space.
I could live to see colonies start on the moon? That to me is simultaneously scary and exciting! Good luck to all the teams participating, and I hope they all achieve and exceed the goal of increasing mankind's knowledge of the moon, and making our voyages to it easier.
7:30
"Back to the Moon for Good"
XD
I think that the limitations on how teams could have received funding are what caused no one to win the actual competition. Am I right in saying it was canned either last year or the year before? Still, this kayfabed feature was very good. Interesting that it was released in 2013.
They knew that *Luna* would bring the views! Google you magnificent demons!!
Buzz Lightyear and Nightmare Moon? Best vid.
My god that was *EPIC!!!*
I just hope that i see people walk on the moon again in my lifetime.
Everything in the video up to the time of 2:33 made me cry in real life :(... I LOVE SPACE SO MUCH!!!! #backtothemoon
PRAISE THE MOON! And yes, I did see the Luna symbol.
That poster, in the left background at 19:23! I have the same one in my room at home!
Chills every time. Good Luck to all the teams!
I saw this in a planetarium and it was, to put it as accurately as possible, fucking incredible.
If there was a cinematic movie with this concept then it would be so much inspirational to watch in theaters
+Jacob S. I'm an aspiring filmmaker. The kind of guy who eats up Quentin Tarantino, Edgar Wright, all that stuff. Aside from that, I'm interesting in engineering. Elon Musk, XPrize kind of stuff. So making a movie like that is right up my ally.
Mindblown. One thing is sure, i'm not going to ride on a segway when i'm on the moon...
This exat program was shown at grand rapids public museum planetarium
What are the names of the songs of the film ( soundtrack ) ??
MOONBUT!!! Awesome science too.
7:30 - The little white circle in the middle is Nightmare Moon, hence all the Bronies.
Worth watching... Destination Moon!!!
At last. Something worth watching.
great idea!!! thanks google
What's the music in the video called?
Come on Tim Allen! We need to send people, people to the Moon! We need a permanent base there so we can feel that we're actually doing something! Think how cool it would be to have a base where there's frozen water. We could see images of the Moon, astronauts building a permanent base, hydroponics, automated flights sending supplies, really exiting stuff, not just pictures (that won't even look real).
Hi Princess Luna.
I think this show was in Mind Museum in the Philippines
Bro I was at school and saw this video it felt like I was in the moon fr
Greatly presented , forward with the great dream we believe in you Google :)
Parabens fantastico o video
7:29 ALL hail princess luna :D
07:30 our influence grows
I cannot wait for this
SAME
Nerun Will you idiots finally accept the moon landings were bullshit or what.
I spy the Mare on the Moon.
That is pretty fucking insane.
Google never ceases to amaze.
So I watched the whole video, and noticed the date of production was 2013. Per Wikipedia, via a Google search, the $30 million X prize went unclaimed, and the competition for prize money was over after Jan. 2018. However, 5 teams were fairly close, and I'll need to research anyone's success further.
Was that an airhorn at about 20:45?
MLG dank Google is illuminate confirm. #420
Dat mare on the moon reference...
13:00 Marc Zaballa called "russian" rocket which is made in Ukraine. It is incorrect.
Can anyone tell me what the kid at 23:58 is saying? I was able to translate all the other ones, but this one I can't figure out.
I'm guessing he's speaking Catalan, but not positive.
If anyone knows anything about My Little Pony, there is an Easter egg at 7:30 in this video. In the small moon in the middle.
to all those people who say we never went to the moon get ready to EAT MOON DUST.
Mare in the moon? Google for the win!
Where can we find the full dome version?
my flat computer screen doesn't know what to do with this planetarium video
Were those animated guys riding segways on the moon? That would be awesome!
This is awesome I can't wait to see what will happen.
Thank you for using the Metric System in this video
Goosebumps!!! I wish I was smart to do things like this :(
You are smart enough! Teams are still looking for help, too, especially as they ramp up this year for their big launches: lunar.xprize.org/teams Big volunteer segments, and paid positions!
It's about time we went back.
The only yellow whitish moon photographed up close is Black and white ?
Amazing production quality
yes. I didn't recognize Tim Allen's voice until seeing his name in the credits. Either my hearing is getting bad or the video was too captivating to focus on the voice.
Is there "insurance" from either the launch companies or google if there is a launcher malfunction?
Pretty, lovely, amazing.
This is what needs to be focused on! Luna is much more suitable place to form colonies not Mars
Except Mars has frozen and liquid water so with Mars you won't have to constantly send them supplies cause they'd be growing they're own food with they're own water but if we went to the moon there would be a lot of supply ships going to and from the planet with food and water I say we go back to the moon and go to Mars
+kelly wilson whitehead id be a moon trucker lol
Also nitrogen and carbon dioxide, the moon doesn't have nearly as many resources as Mars.
I'm guessing it's harder than it looks... Then again I recall John Carmack saying something about programming being more difficult and/or complex than rocket science or something like that.. idk
Anyone know the song used on 17:56
wonderful...
Amazing mind blowing😱
19:39 destiny symbol... What does this mean?
I've noticed a lot gets done on Earth when there is a "prize" at the end of it all.
Google Streetview would be nice :)
I love space moon forever
To everyone asking if 30 mil is enough, the cost to launch something in space is $10,000 per pound. So once in space slingshot from each minor corrections it really does not take that much to hit the moon.
Wait did the apolo 17 return or not?
+Tim Alban Returned, of course.
Very good. Well done.
7:30 IS THAT THE GODDAMN MARE IN THE MOON
FROM MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
We need to get our asses back into space, like the moon
Where is this planetarium located???
"We do it not because its easy, but because its hard."
Over the large amount of time we have been on this world, we have discovered so many things that have inspired people in one way or another to do things.
We have seen so much of this amazing place, but we have seen so little of places out there.
Its is no longer a question of 'can' or 'should' we do it, its a question of 'how' and 'why'.
Just as it has in the past, space can drive the imagination and creativity of the living billions, and the unborn trillions.
The point of the challenge isn't to "make" $30 M because $30 M will barely cover half of the total cost of sending a rocket to moon. The point is for small companies to test out their project, while getting some money back, if rocket successfully lands it.
Where will I be when the prize is won? I have no idea.
I don't know where I will be when a human sets foot on the Moon again, either.
But when it happens, I know I will remember it for the rest of my life.
We've seen it on Imax type theatre yesterday in Jalandhar science city