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Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen<\/a>\u00a0explores in her recent Forbes column<\/a> the Asian race for wining Google’s prestigious\u00a0lunar X Prize competition<\/a>, a\u00a0challenge designed\u00a0to\u00a0inspire engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration.<\/p>\n

Asia’s proven track record in outer space affairs have lured space entrepreneurs in\u00a0India, Japan and\u00a0Malaysia to form teams competing for the grand $20 million prize to develop a rover to land on the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackson School Professor Saadia Pekkanen\u00a0explores in her recent Forbes column the Asian race for wining Google’s prestigious\u00a0lunar X Prize competition, a\u00a0challenge designed\u00a0to\u00a0inspire engineers, entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world to develop low-cost methods of robotic space exploration. Asia’s proven track record in outer space affairs have lured space entrepreneurs in\u00a0India, Japan and\u00a0Malaysia to form<\/p>\n

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