The $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is an awesome competition for the first private enterprise to land a rover on the Moon (and complete a series of tasks).

With 25 teams all ramping up the action, there’s a lot of news that comes every week!

So every weekend, I’m going to round up the 5 best items from the GLXP’s previous week. Between blogs, tweets, and videos, there’s a lot to choose from!

Little bit of a quiet week, but there’s NASA knowledge, awesome partnerships, and more to be found:

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1.) A STELLAR Partnership!

Team STELLAR has bundled up with Slovenian company Arctic on some pretty sweet lander and rover technology:

STELLAR and Arctic

2.) John Hancock and the Moon!

Team FREDNET posted a video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where they talked just how to get a whole mess of signatures up to the Moon:

3.) A Kickstart In the Pants!

Team Omega Envoy launched a Kickstarter project to get creative funds rolling:

Omega Envoy’s Kickstarter Announcement

4.) Model Citizens!

Team Puli featured a nifty scale-model world they’re working on, including lunar bases and other space goodness:

5.) Some Serious 恭喜恭喜!

Team Barcelona Moon offered up some props for China’s big space milestone this week:

Barcelona Moon Team congratulates China in its historical flight

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I’ll be rounding these up these each week, so check back to see what kinds of cool things are going down with the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams!

If you have any suggestions for next week’s best items as they come along...post ‘em in the comments below! :)

And follow the feeds for team blogs, team social, and team videos for the whole nine yards!

by: Nick A.

Monday Jul-09-2012