In late 2007, Google an**unced the Lunar X Prize, which promised $20 Million or more to the first privately funded teams that could land a rover on the moon, take some high-resolution pictures and videos and transmit them back to earth. The lofty goal of the competition was to reignite the space race for a new generation of engineers and entrepreneurs
Berkenstock, then three years into a PhD engineering program at Stanford, worked to assemble a group of Students and investors to beat out the competition. "They spent about a year on it getting everything lined up," Juan Alonso, an associate professor of aeronautics at Stanford who became his academic advisor for a time, recalled to Mashable. "Dan always had a very entrepreneurial spirit to him. I remember him being very entrepreneurial, well put together and **t afraid to take risks." Read more...
06-12-2014, 02:24 AM
How 4 Students Got a Satellite Startup Off the Ground and $500 Million From Google
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