A Google-sponsored competition promising to richly reward the first private space company to land on the moon has come to an end with no one winning the prize.
Announced to considerable fanfare in 2007, the Google Lunar X-Prize would have awarded a whopping $20 million dollars to whichever group was first to accomplish the feat and another $10 million for various other achievements.
Pulling off such a mission, however, proved to be easier said than done and the company was forced to continually extend the deadline after the initial goal of 2012 had passed without a winner.
That's not to say that no one was trying as several different groups formed with the intention of taking home the $20 million and five candidates were seen as particularly viable by Google.
Find out why no one will be taking home an oversized check for landing on the moon at the Coast to Coast AM website.