<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Does this mean we could design and build the needed soft-landing probe/3rd stage, buy launch services from SpaceX and win the Google Lunar-X Prize? And turn handsome profit in the process? <br />Posted by aphh</DIV><br /><br />SpaceX has already stated that they would provide a Falcon vehicle to any X Prize team at cost for their attempts, so, yes, you could buy launch services from SpaceX.</p><p>Profit is another story altogether <img src="http://sitelife.space.com/ver1.0/content/scripts/tinymce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>