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5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Company About to Land on the Moon

Google is offering $30 million to the first private company that can land a spacecraft on the moon, travel 500 meters, and transmit a video feed back to earth. Of the original 33 competing teams, 18 are currently still in the race, and SpaceIL seems the most likely to succeed by the deadline of December 31, 2015. Here are the top 5 things you need to know about them: