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Google Gives $30-Million to Create Space-Travel Prize

The Internet firm Google is providing $30-million to the X Prize Foundation, a Santa Monica, Calif., charity, for a new effort to encourage private organizations to develop a robotic spacecraft that can successfully land on the moon.

The Google Lunar X Prize is open to nongovernmental teams of scientists and inventors around...

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