Moon Express, Inc., a Google Lunar X PRIZE team and commercial space company, has become the first corporate sponsor of Uwingu’s IndieGoGo crowd-sourcing campaign. Moon Express, Inc., a provider of commercial and scientific missions to the Moon and leading contender in the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE competition, has become the first corporate sponsor of […]

Uwingu, LLC, a space-themed, for-profit start-up, plans to launch an ongoing series of public-engagement projects and to use proceeds from those projects to generate funding for space exploration, research, and education efforts around the world. Uwingu (which means “sky” in Swahili and is pronounced “oo-wing-oo) consists of astronomers, planetary scientists, former space-program executives, and educators. […]