According to Sarah Evans of the X-Prize Foundation, 347 teams from 29 countries have already registered to compete to be the first private group to put a spacecraft on the Moon. It's encouraging. Even though only a small fraction of those who look at the project are likely to ever really take a shot, the likelihood now may be that several teams will actually compete, which increases the chances that the Google Lunar X-Prize will be claimed.
In fact, Peter Diamondis, chairman of the X-Prize Foundation, thinks the contest could be won in three or four years, far ahead of the 2014 deadline.
The next question would be whether such a project could be developed into an ongoing business.
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