Kevin Myrick Vows to Reach Moon by 2012

Kevin Myrick (inset) develops a multinational team to build Spherical Robotic Rover to land on Mars by 2012.

Kevin Myrick of Port Richmond has assembled a multinational team to participate in the Google Lunar X Prize, a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface and send images and data back to the Earth.
Myrick,  President and CEO of InterPlanetary Ventures, has teamed with The Human Synergy Project and Interorbital Systems to become Synergy Moon, which has  working groups in 15 countries to promotes international cooperation in space exploration and development.
Synergy Moon plans to use a lunar-direct launch of an Interorbital Systems’ modular Neptune rocket to carry a lunar lander and at least one rover to the surface of the moon before the end of 2012. The company hopes to prove that an international, private-sector team can do what has never been done before – move private enterprise into space beyond Earth’s orbit.
“For the space enterprise community to maintain its edge in the global space market, our future workforce is going to consist of engineers who think like artists and artists who think like engineers, ” said Celeste Volz Ford, California Space Authority Board Member.
Myrick’s background includes experience both as a technologist and practicing theatrical designer with credits for building the Burial Clay Theatre inside the African American Art and Culture Complex and the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco. He also is a public school teacher who encourages youth to pursue math and science while developing their artistic endeavors.
Members of the team include representatives from Serbia, Russia, Bosnia, South Africa, the United States, Israel, Croatia, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Herzegovina, Sri Lanka and India. Also on the team are members of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), the Space Generation Congress (SGC), Team One of India and the Science Popularization Association of Communicators and Educators youth program (S.P.A.C.E. India).
For more information visit  www.synergymoon.org.