Recently, George Hotz and I have been working together in Google's X PRIZE competition (http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/) . Yesterday we began "Space Week", a week of research, movies, and cold ramen. Although the movies have been a success (sort of) and I haven't yet tried the ramen, we've been spending a lot of time reading and discussing ways to get an unmanned craft to the moon.
Primary issues include fuel state, engine type, specific impulse, weight, materials, and a bunch of other random numbers that we're not entirely sure are relevant yet. We've decided that our best chance is to use a liquid engine with a specific impulse of 450 seconds. The other things.. well, they're still a mystery.
Movies watched so far:
Rocketman
Eurotrip
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