A $30 million, Google-funded race to the moon has ended without a winner

After 10 years and numerous delays and extensions, the Google Lunar XPrize is will end without a winner. 

No one will claim the $20 million grand prize that was expected to go to the first participating private company to land a spacecraft on the moon and perform a series of tasks. 

“After close consultation with our five finalist Google Lunar XPRIZE teams over the past several months, we have concluded that no team will make a launch attempt to reach the Moon by the March 31st, 2018 deadline,” XPrize said in a statement.

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