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Run a rover, win $20 million

Hyderabad: Run a rover on the moon successfully and you could win $ 20 million as prize money. The X Prize Foundation and Google Inc. have announced a robotic race to the moon to generate awareness among the people to devise low-cost methods for space exploration. The project should be privately funded without any subsidy or support, Bretton S. F. Alexander, Executive Director, X Prize Foundation, said here. — PTI

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