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Online Community Project Aims for the Moon
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/090520-tw-glxp-frednet.html
By Jeremy Hsu - Staff Writer
posted: 20 May 2009 - 09:47 am ET
Nearly 40 years after Americans first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969 with NASA's historic Apollo 11 flight, a host of private rocketeers are hoping to follow to win a $30 million prize. Here, SPACE.com looks at Team FREDNET, one of 17 teams competing in the Google Lunar X Prize:
Open source usually applies to virtual space rather than outer space, but Team FREDNET hopes to apply the concept toward winning the Google Lunar X Prize.
The growing group of netizens hopes to reach the moon
"It was only natural to fully use the Internet to pull together the team," said Rich Core, Team FREDNET's software lead and a longtime friend of Bourgeois.
Bourgeois grew up in the space business around Huntsville, Alabama and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. There he made friends with people such as Core, who spent a long career working for aerospace giants such as Lockheed-Martin and as a software consultant in Silicon Valley.
That informal network of friends became the basis for Team FREDNET's talent when Bourgeois saw the Google Lunar X Prize
Bourgeois e-mailed Core and others with a straightforward proposition — did they want to go to the moon
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Check out Team FREDNET's web site. Maybe you will want to join them.
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Team FREDNET
http://www.frednet.com/
*/Team FREDNET/* is a group of scientists, technologists, and engineers who are using their combined talents to create a timely and elegant solution to win the *Google Lunar X Prize
*/Team FREDNET/* is going to the Moon, the Engineering Project of a Lifetime!
*/ Team FREDNET/*: the First and Only 100% Open Source Competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize.
Team FREDNET Leaders
Fred J. Bourgeois, III
Richard D. Core
Ryan Weed
Joseph M. Stevenson
Team FREDNET - Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission
Written by Fred J. Bourgeois, III
Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission
Team FREDNET attempts to do several things that no organization has successfully done before, and that requires some innovation. Innovation often starts in chaos. The chaos makes us aware of needs, which in turn spark ideas of how to meet those needs with various solutions. Those solutions in turn generate
Read more... *http://tinyurl.com/ptl8ra*
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One rock moved at a time, and the mountain moves too.
One small launch to the Moon, and the way for all to go to the Moon is open.
Team FREDNET has a plan, take a look.
http://www.frednet.com/
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Team FREDNET Promo Video
http://photos.imageevent.com/frednet/tfx/animations/Teaser.mov
This short promotional video gives an overview of early conceptual designs for our Open Source Space Systems.
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