"Google's moon landing is imminent, and Alphabet may create a new pattern and new era of human space exploration!" -- The front page of the New York Times.

"Humanity is once again heading for the moon, but this time by a company that is the pride of the United States: Alphabet!!" -- The front page headline of the Imperial Magazine.

"Apple has fallen, Alphabet can take over the fight against XlouS?" -- AFP, a global hot spot.

"Alphabet Umbrella may become the successor to Elon. Musk's space exploration technology company SpaceX has further promoted a new pattern of commercial space exploration. —The Wall Street Journal.

Gone are the days when quantum computers dominated the tech world, and Alphabet Umbrella has taken the headlines of the world's major mainstream media in one fell swoop.

A few days ago, Alphabet Umbrella announced a super blockbuster news at a press conference.

After 15 years, the ambitious Google, the XPRIZE moon landing program has been repeatedly postponed, and finally announced the end of the ticket jump, and today, it is finally really going to the moon!

Google's moon landing program, a landmark program, will be the world's first space exploration activity initiated and organized by a non-state nature, which is groundbreaking.

As early as 15 years ago, in June 2007, Google announced their moon program for the first time in an ambitious way, which also caused a sensation in the world to discuss the moon again.

Google's moon program is led by Google, followed up by the German company Otis company, and the German team of scientists together with Google, now Alphabet umbrella company, led the Google-lunar-XPRIZE program, that is: Google XPRIZE moon landing program, officially established in 2007.

Over the course of 15 years, Google has prepared too much for this ambitious plan. At the end of 2007, when Google announced their moon program, the XPRIZE Foundation launched a science and technology competition for space exploration, and Google immediately sponsored and participated in the XPRIZE competition, aiming to promote the development of commercial space exploration, hoping to contribute to its own moon landing program.

In the whole process of Google's XPRIZE moon landing program, no government or country plays any role, and it can be said that it is completely initiated by the people.

And this has to mention the XPRIZE Foundation.

The XPRIZE Foundation is founded by the tech madman Elon Brown, known as the "Iron Man of Silicon Valley". Elon Musk, Hollywood director James. Cameron, Google founder Larry. Page and Apple founder Steve Brown. Steve Jobs and many other tech bigwigs and celebrities co-founded it in 1995.

XPRIZE Foundation is a global non-profit organization, which aims to promote scientific and technological innovation and technological development for all mankind through various scientific and technological competitions. So far, the XPRIZE Foundation has initiated and launched 15 science and technology competitions, covering many hot frontier fields such as new materials, aerospace, ocean exploration, and human genetics.

In 2007, the XPRIZE Foundation launched a space technology competition in which Google made significant gains, in which XPRIZE and Google required the participating teams to complete an unprecedented task: to land safely on the surface of the moon using a private spacecraft, and at the same time to complete a 500-meter mission on the lunar surface and transmit high-definition video and images back to Earth. The winning team will receive a $20 million prize from Google, as well as an additional $4 million if water is discovered on the moon. In 2007, this was a sky-high reward.

Despite the ambition of Google's XPRIZE moon landing program, the space technology race is only one part of Google's moon landing program, which can be said to be a technical reserve, but the difficulties are one after another, initially the deadline for this project was set in late 2012, then delayed until late 2015, and finally delayed until the end of 2020.

As of 2020, the project plan bonus has increased from the initial $20 million to $70 million, although it has increased several times, but due to inflation, it has not increased much compared to $20 million in 2007.

The repeated encounters in the plan are enough to show that the ideal is beautiful and the reality is very skinny. But then again, dreams always have to come true, and what if they come true?

Today, in 2022, the dream is within reach.

Google's XPRIZE moon landing program is an unprecedented international space exploration event involving a total of 16 teams from countries on all continents.

Google's XPRIZE moon landing program claims that its purpose is to inspire scientists and entrepreneurs around the world to participate in the exploration and development of commercial space, and the meaning of its existence is not just to research and land on the moon and the end, Google claims that in the future it will create a new era of space exploration for mankind.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the participating organizations of the XPRIZE moon landing program, an international cutting-edge science and technology activity, have been "kicked out" again.

In 2007, it seems not surprising that China was "kicked out" of the XPRIZE program, and looking back at the past major international joint science and technology projects in various fields, almost all of them kicked China out. In the field of space exploration, the most typical is the International Space Station, even Brazil participated in it, but China was kicked out, which was extremely angry and helpless for the Chinese people at that time.

However, this did not stop the country and the nation from yearning for space exploration and the pace of attack, and in the case of European and American countries strictly guarding against technology, she has simply walked out of an independent pioneering road.

The only space station in outer space in the world today has only one flag on its surface, and the "Tianzhou" spacecraft of more than 500 tons is a symbol of pride and strength and courage of this country and nation.

However, there are not only Chinese scientific researchers and astronauts on board the "Tianzhou" at present, but also quite a few members of European and American countries; as the world's only super-large space station in orbit, Europe and the United States and other countries have to look at China's face if they want to engage in space activities and research.

Although China has announced that it welcomes all major countries to settle in Tianzhou and contribute to the development of space exploration technology for all mankind, it must show enough "sincerity", and it is impossible to let you in without benefits.

Today's China is far from what it was in 2007, and the world's firsts have entered the arms of this eastern country. Today's China's influence and status in the world in the economy, science and technology and other major fields have become more and more impossible to ignore.

There are more and more international joint projects, and China's shadow is also among them.

In the past year, there has been a lot of news that the XPRIZE Foundation is contacting the technology giant XlouS and the social overlord Facebook, hoping that its founder can join it like other technology giants in the world and contribute to the promotion of human scientific and technological progress.

However, Matrix Technology has not made any official response to this rumor, and I think that if the XPRIZE Foundation does not have the name of this industry leader, it will definitely be a little discolored.

As the time approaches, Google's moon landing is imminent, and the world's vision has converged on Alphabet's umbrella company.

(To be continued)

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