"Space for Everyone: Open-Sourcing Our Way to the Google Lunar X Prize" by Christie Dudley

Google’s Lunar X Prize has thrown down the space-suit gauntlet: win $30 million in prizes by privately funding, building, and landing a robot on the surface of the Moon, where it must travel 500 meters over the surface and send images and data back to Earth. Team FREDNET has taken up the challenge, combining the talents of 600 scientists, technologists, and engineers from 63 countries as the only 100% open-source competitor. With the goal of making space exploration open, accessible, and usable to everyone (not just the government), Team FREDNET’s leader will take us through their process of creating a timely, elegant, and (hopefully) victorious solution.

Christie Dudley is the communications team lead for Team FREDNET, which recently won a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data contract for over $10 million.