India's Race to the Moon

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 24 (NewsSee): Discovery, the leading infotainment channel, will premiere a one-hour special show titled 'Moonbound: India's Race to the Moon' based on the teamIndus on October 30 at 9 PM. The show captures the best of this eventful and enlightening seven-year journey with a team of friends coming together and went on to become TeamIndus.

It started in 2007 when the Google Lunar XPRIZE was announced in the largest space in the world. A small group of friends came together and coughed up personal resources to register last minute as the only Indian team in the global contest. This young enthusiast team, with no aerospace background, had the grit, the tenacity to take on the world in their endeavor to win the $ 30 million, Google Lunar XPRIZE.

Moonbound: India's Race to the Moon has garnered huge traction from marquee advertisers. The on-air broadcast of the show is Co-Presented by Amazon Echo and Co-Powered by Levi Strauss and PUBG, Nokia as the Mobile Partner. Sony Bravia, ForeverMark, Idea 4G, Honda Motorcycles and Phillips Trimmer have come on board as Associate sponsors.

Conceived in a server room in Noida, near India's capital, Rahul Narayan helmed the whole challenge and took the first step of deciding to participate in this global lunar race. He started looking out for people who would love to join in the race. An inhouse robotic rover named 'Ek Choti if Asha' was designed with the Ackerman steering concept and a deployable masthead.

What happened next? Do not miss to watch Moonbound: India 's Race to the Moon. Can they meet the demands of a lunar mission? And even so, from where will they raise the huge amount of money to get to the moon! TeamIndus does not have a chance to win this race for space? (NewsVoir)