Congratulations to NASA and JPL, Curiosity touch down.

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Space exploration is going so slow it makes one wish Cold War never ended.

Yep, know what you mean

[PELHAM]

Cant find SpaceX on the list. And traveling to LEO ISS is quite different from traveling to the moon and landing a vehicle on it that can go 500 meters.
They won't achieve that by 2015.

Edit -
Ah there is a footnote at the end... Can't access the article but anyway, they didn't enter the competition.

Quote Originally Posted by PELHAM
SpaceX will also launch a lunar mission in 2013 for Astrobotic Technology who hope to win the Google Lunar X Prize.

You will not find SpaceX on the list because they are providing the Falcon9 launcher, the entry is Astrobotic Technology not sure why that isn't clear from the above? - 2nd one down on entry list, mission was put back to 2015. Sending a small payload to lunar orbit is well within Falcon 9's capabilities. The tricky task of de-orbiting and landing will be the responsibility of Astrobotic.
For a similar mission on a much less powerfull launcher see Chandrayaan-1.

"SpaceX is a Preferred Launch Partner, having offered substantial discount to all Google Lunar X Prize teams as a way of further fostering exploration and innovation," officials wrote on the X Prize website.

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/fea...ct-with-spacex
http://www.space.com/10787-private-m...al-spacex.html
http://astrobotic.net/2012/05/22/pol...poles-in-2015/