What's Uwingu? Space funding venture isn't just for space fans
By Alan Boyle
Will you Uwingu? A commercial venture that's been founded to fund space research and education is betting that you will, even if you're not a hard-core space fan. But what is Uwingu? The founders are being coy about that, in order to build interest for their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign . As of today, they're almost a third of the way toward their goal of $75,000 in seed money, with 30 days left to go. Just today, Moon Express became the venture's first corporate sponsor , and XCOR Aerospace quickly followed up with the second $1,000 sponsorship.
One of Uwingu's founders, planetary scientist Alan Stern, talked about Uwingu tonight during "Virtually Speaking Science," a program that's presented on the Web and in the Second Life virtual world . If you didn't hear the show in real time, don't worry: The hour long program is being archived at BlogTalkRadio's website as well as on iTunes .
Read full article at: http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/15/13299431whats-uwingu-space-funding-venture-isnt-just-for-space-fans?lite
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As of today, Uwingu are almost a third of the way toward their goal of $75,000 in seed money, with 30 days left to go. Just today, Moon Express became the venture's first corporate sponsor, and XCOR Aerospace quickly followed up with the second $1,000 sponsorship.