{"id":19444,"date":"2016-03-03T20:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/j-j-abrams-moon-shot-online-documentary-series-focuses-on-google-lunar-x-prize\/"},"modified":"2016-03-03T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T12:20:22","slug":"j-j-abrams-moon-shot-online-documentary-series-focuses-on-google-lunar-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/j-j-abrams-moon-shot-online-documentary-series-focuses-on-google-lunar-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams\u2019 \u2018Moon Shot\u2019 online documentary series focuses on Google Lunar X Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234489\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-234489\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160303-xprize4-630x466.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Moon Shot&quot; scene\" width=\"630\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160303-xprize4-630x466.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160303-xprize4-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/160303-xprize4.jpg 1074w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-234489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cMoon Shot\u201d focuses on the rocketeers who are aiming for the moon. (Credit: GLXP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Film director\/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, \u201cStar Trek\u201d and \u201cStar Wars\u201d \u2013 so maybe it shouldn\u2019t be that surprising that he\u2019s also in on \u201cMoon Shot,\u201d an online documentary series that tracks the teams vying for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams is the executive producer for the Google-backed project announced today. That suggests he wasn\u2019t&nbsp;involved in the day-to-day shooting. But the director of \u201cMoon Shot,\u201d Orlando von Einsiedel, has some top-drawer entries on his resume as well. \u201cVirunga,\u201d his 2014 documentary about conservationists in the battle-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo, has won dozens of awards and was nominated for an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-part \u201cMoon Shot\u201d series tells the behind-the-scenes story of the 16 teams that are developing spacecraft for trips to the moon. The first team to get a lander to the surface, have it travel three-tenths of a mile&nbsp;(500 meters) and send video and images back to Earth will win as much as $20 million. Another $10 million has been set aside for the runner-up and for bonuses. But the deed has to be done by the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Moon Shot | Official Trailer | Google Lunar XPRIZE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cuXxBoSYmfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The rocketeers are the stars of the show. The trailer released today features such figures as Naveen Jain, the Seattle-based billionaire who\u2019s backing Moon Express; Alex Dobrianski, the Vancouver-based&nbsp;software consultant&nbsp;whose Plan B team wants to send a Canadian hockey puck to the moon; and Red Whittaker, the roboticist and ex-Marine who leads the Astrobotic team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis getting to the moon is really getting good,\u201d Whittaker says.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary series, he and the other competitors demonstrate that the effort is about much more than a mere engineering feat.&nbsp;\u201cIt\u2019s not really just going to the moon. Going to the moon is symbolic. It is about showing what is possible,\u201d Jain says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve finally got an opportunity to prove myself,\u201d says Deepana Gandhi, an Indian engineer on Team Indus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoon Shot\u201d will make its debut on Google Play on March 15, and on YouTube on March 17. In the meantime, you can watch \u201cBack to the Moon for Good,\u201d the Google Lunar X Prize\u2019s 25-minute planetarium show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMoon Shot\u201d focuses on the rocketeers who are aiming for the moon. (Credit: GLXP) Film director\/producer J.J. Abrams has been in on two of the biggest space-movie franchises ever, \u201cStar Trek\u201d and \u201cStar Wars\u201d \u2013 so maybe it shouldn\u2019t be that surprising that he\u2019s also in on \u201cMoon Shot,\u201d an online documentary series that tracks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5577,2670,5578,2910,21],"class_list":["post-19444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-documentaries","tag-google-lunar-x-prize","tag-j-j-abrams","tag-moon-express","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}