Open Space Project

From TeamFrednetWiki

Team FREDNET is an international open source and open participation competitor in the Google Lunar X PRIZE. The team comprised of a handful of engineers and scientists who serve as the leaders and overall coordinators of the team and a large group of volunteers organized in various working groups.

Our goal (besides winning the Google Lunar X PRIZE), is to bring the same successful approach used in developing major software systems (such as the Internet, Linux, and Firefox) to bear on the problems associated with Space Exploration and Research. In so doing, we plan to establish an Open Space Foundation that provides incentives, education, and funding to future individuals and organizations seeking opportunities in this final frontier. In addition, we hope to foster greater public interest in Space Exploration and Research as well as educate the public at large on the past, present, and future importance of these discoveries, while simultaneously (through our Open Source initiative) giving individual contributors the opportunity to have a very real impact on the world around us all. Our effort is a means for an individual (or many individuals) to change the world. Our architecture is simple, we are building a very small rover which shall be soft-landed at specific target coordinates on the Moon by a very small lander. The rover shall communicate with the lander, and the lander shall act as the main communications relay to Earth.

We have the expertise and ambitions but we need your help to make this happen. So stop watching from the side line and get involved if you want to become part of history!