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Jimi Crawford, who had been engineering director for the Google Books project since 2009, has signed on with Moon Express
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will serve as chief technology officer and software architect for the Silicon Valley firm, which is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million private race to the moon.
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25 teams participating in the Google Lunar X Prize, an international challenge to land a robot on the lunar surface, have it travel at least 1,650 feet (500 meters) and send data and images back to Earth.
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first privately funded team to do all of this will receive the $20 million grand prize
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additional $10 million is set aside for second place and various special accomplishments, such as detecting water, bringing the prize's total purse to $30 million.
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wraps up whenever all prizes are claimed — or, failing that, at the end of 2015
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Moon Express officials say they're on target to beat the deadline.
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