laughs welcome to the earthbound hq of team indus, one of the handful of start—ups competing for thee lunar xprize, that's $20 million for the first commercial company to land a rover on the moon. december, 2017, blast off. the team indus space craft goes into two days of earth orbit and then, boom, 11.5 days to the moon. 12 days of spiralling down to the surface and, if all goes well, out comes the rover, travels half a kilometre, sends back hd video and wins the prize. what could possibly go wrong? rahul narayan is the co—founder of team indus and has been here since the start of the project, way back in 2010. and at that point you had no idea how you would acheive it? yes, i googled and figured out what wikipedia had to say about landing on the mood. you did an internet search on how to land on the moon? absolutely. laughs did it have any useful information? yes. it said there had been 85 attempts and i think every second attempt failed to the moon. six years later, there are about 100 people working very hard here and it certainly looks like they know their space stuff. star wars

there is a word here in india that i think describes team indus's low—cost, make do approach.

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team indus is one of five start—ups from around the world that have secured launch contracts for theirand so perhaps be the first team to land and win! to sell some of their spare launch weight to a competitor rover. japan's team hakuto will onboard too. you're both going to get to the moon at the same time. how is that going to work? it's whoever touches down first and whoever has the fastest rover? it's going to be crazy! in a manner of speaking, yes. so what do you expect to happen?! so it's a race, it will be a very interesting race, and once we touch down and both the rovers are deployed, let's see which one makes 500m first. i would put a laser gun on yours. make it to the moon in the first place. space exploration is a risky business and when it goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. six years, hundreds of thousands of hours of effort and millions spent and there's certainly a lot riding on getting things right. you mitigate the big pieces and then you start mitigating the smaller of code that made it through could kill the entire mission. there is a word here in india that i t