Opportunities in Commercial Space and  how African American

entrepreneurs can cross the ‘space divide.’ 

By: Blaze Sanders Commercial Space = “New Space”10/15/2011

Juxtopia® Urban Innovation and Cooperative Entrepreneurship

3rd Annual Space Entrepreneurship Forum on Capitol Hill

With cooperation from representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and representative Chaka Fattah

Rayburn House Building, Washington DC www.juxtopi.org/jurban/spaceforum/ Around September 15

JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize

What? Why? How?

The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a$30 million competition for

thefirst privately funded team to

send a robot to the moon, travel

500 meters and transmit HD video,

images and data back to the Earth.

To expose and significantly increase the science, technology,

engineering, math, and entrepreneurial (STEME)

proficiency of underserved and disadvantaged populations

 through empirically researched interventions.

Plus it’s just awesome!!

Juxtopia a local Baltimore technology company is amassing $16 million worth of

funding , and providing professional leadership for the team.

• Swarm robotics & novel locomotion (no wheels)

• Augmented Reality mission control & public viewing• Airbag landing near Apollo 12 site• Advertising on the Moon (Moon pies, MJ moon walk shoes, ...)

Mission Architecture of the JURBAN Google Lunar X-Prize Team

Step 1 – Direct Launch

Step 2 – Airbag Landing

Step 3 – 500 m Transverse

Step 4 – HD Mooncast and thermal imaging

www.googlelunarxprize.org/teams/jurban

From Warwick Mills, our airbag supplier

Community

Solar System Express

CEO – Blaze Sanders www.solarsystemexpress.com

“We are the people bringing Mars to

Earth”

Competition

Earth

Space NASA

High Price

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