{"id":123083,"date":"2018-01-25T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=123083"},"modified":"2018-01-25T12:44:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T10:44:08","slug":"google-lunar-xprize-race-to-the-moon-ends-without-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/123083-google-lunar-xprize-race-to-the-moon-ends-without-a-winner","title":{"rendered":"Google Lunar XPrize race to the moon ends without a winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years and several deadline extensions, the XPrize Foundation has ended the\u00a0Google Lunar XPrize competition without a winner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter close consultation with our five finalist Google Lunar XPrize teams over the past several months, we have concluded that no team will make a launch attempt to reach the moon by the March 31st, 2018 deadline,\u201d said\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lunar.xprize.org\/news\/blog\/important-update-google-lunar-xprize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the foundation<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis literal moonshot is hard, and while we did expect a winner by now, due to the difficulties of fundraising, technical, and regulatory challenges, the grand prize of the $30-million Google Lunar XPrize will go unclaimed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The foundation said it is\u00a0exploring ways to proceed, including finding a new title sponsor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years and several deadline extensions, the XPrize Foundation has ended the\u00a0Google Lunar XPrize competition without a winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":111983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1638,25639,25638],"class_list":["post-123083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-google","tag-google-lunar-xprize","tag-xprize-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}