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Team FREDNET
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Team FREDNET is a group of scientists, technologists, and engineers who are using their combined talents to create a timely and elegant solution to win the Google Lunar X PRIZE.
Team FREDNET is going to the Moon, the Engineering Project of a Lifetime!
Team FREDNET: the First and Only 100% Open Source Competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize. Team FREDNET is a Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation. |
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"Going to the Moon isn't something that should be strictly the domain of governments. It's something that needs to be open to the people because a free people demand a new frontier; we need to have some place we can go. Right now, there aren't many new places we can go on Earth. So we have to open up that [space] frontier and make it available to the rest of the world, that is to all of us [the people] as opposed to the governments that are over us." Fred Bourgeois on Evadot Podcast #47 Team FREDNET Ad Lunam Campaign 2012: Do you Want To Change The World? 2012/01/12.Examiner.com, From riding a little red tractor in MS to remotely driving a robot on the moon, 201112/15. San Francisco Chronicle, Google & NASA work together on Space Exploration, James Temple, 2011/11/16.
Evadot, Evadot Podcast #47 - An interview with Team FREDNET, MIchael Doornbos,Press Release, 2010/10/27.NASA Awards Contract to Team FREDNET, Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender, Press Release, 2010/10/21.CEO of Team FREDNET joins Anametrix Advisory Board, Press Release, 2010/08/18.Team FREDNET, Air and Space Education Consortium Partnership, Press Release, 2010/07/19.New Scientist, Rovers rev up for Google's moonshot jackpot (with Image Gallery), Lisa Grossman, 2009/08/11. The Space Show, Team FREDNET on the Space Show for the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, Dr. David Livingston, 2009/07/20.Evadot, Evadot Podcast #4 - An interview with Team FREDNET, MIchael Doornbos, 2009/07/01.Asia Times Online, Lunar Prize Sets Asian Hearts Racing, Peter J. Brown, 2009/04/03. John Fowler of KTVU Fox 2 (Oakland, CA) interview with Fred Bourgeois, 2009/03/22. Control Engineering Magazine, Two Wheel Robot Shoots for the Moon, 2009/01/20. Technovelgy, JALURO Lunar Robot - 2-Wheeled Open Source Linux Devices, Open Source Project Races to the Moon, (Front Page) 2008/12/18 Robocon Magazine #58 (Japan), 2008/07/01 Popular Mechanics, Meet the First 10 Teams in the Google Lunar X Prize, June 2008. Popular Mechanics, Debating NASA vs. DIY Rocketeers, Lunar Real Estate and the Open-Source X Prize: My Own Private Space PODCAST, Matt Sullivan, 2008/05/12.
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Team FREDNET - Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission |
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Written by Fred J. Bourgeois, III
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Three Teams, Many Goals, One Primary Mission Team FREDNET attempts to do several things that no organization has successfully done before, and that requires some innovation. Innovation often starts in chaos. The chaos makes us aware of needs, which in turn spark ideas of how to meet those needs with various solutions. Those solutions in turn generate |
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Team FREDNET Promo Video This short promotional video gives an overview of early conceptual designs for our Open Source Space Systems. |
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Most of our Team Volunteers originallly got started with Team FREDNET by joining our original Forum. We've shifted all content from the Forum to our Program Wikis, and also recently changed the method for registration, but these simple instructions are all you need to get involved. Just follow these five easy steps: - First, send an email to
 telling our New User Manager your Country of Residence, Areas of Interest, and your Preferred Username for one of our program wikis. - You should receive a reply within 24-48 hours confirming your username and providing you with an initial password.
- Go to the URL listed in the email, and login with the provided username / password.
- Change your password to something secure that you can remember.
- Create your personal userpage in the wiki (edit User:your_user_name) to let everyone know a little about you, and then have a look at the Getting_Started article for ideas about where to get involved.
Many areas of our wikis can be browsed by all volunteers, but only registered users are allowed to post relevant content. |
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Mission Fulfillment Partners |
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Mission Fulfillment Partners We need YOU to help get us to the Moon! Financial support for this adventure is being provided by:
Applios Inc -- Applied Open Source Technologies - Software & Systems Development Experts
Commercial and Educational Partners Partner-level support through provision of equipment and facilities is being provided by: 
Robot Club of Traverse City - Devoted to the Exploration of Robotics, and the Air and Space Education Consortium at Broward College
All partners will have their names and/or logos prominently displayed here - and on the Moon, of course.
Drop us an e-mail at if you would like to become a part of history. |
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Copyright © 2012 tf(x) - Team FREDNET. All Rights Reserved. FREDNET is a Registered Service Mark, used under an exclusive licensing agreement. "X marks the Spot" is a Trade Mark of Team FREDNET. Team FREDNET is an official competitor for the Google Lunar X Prize. Team FREDNET is a Tax Exempt 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Corporation. Check with your tax advisor, as your donations may be tax deductible.
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