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Community - South County
Deale's man in the moonPublished 04/28/08
If it all works out, some new-age spaceflights might just be controlled from the Deale Space Flight Center.
J. Henson - The Capital
Liam Sarsfield, one of the founders of Quantum 3 Ventures, the American company trying to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE by landing an unmanned spacecraft on the moon, is finishing building his new home on Parker Creek in Deale.
He's half-joking, of course, but Liam Sarsfield, a former NASA engineer and a pioneer of small-scale space exploration, could tweak his team's Google Lunar X PRIZE team's moon shot and other flights from his home office along Parker Creek.
"Why not?" he said with a sly grin. He and his colleagues at Quantum 3 Ventures, headquartered in Vienna, Va., comprise one of 10 teams working to win the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE competition. The challenge? Be the first private enterprise to land a...
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