The Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP) was one of 29 teams from 17 different countries[1] officially registered and in the competition for the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP) during 2010–2012.
[4] A Falcon 9 two-stage rocket, built by SpaceX, was notionally planned to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to place several metric tons of payload into a Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO).
The lander/rover will have its own small retrorocket, and, after being jettisoned from the tug, was projected to conduct a braking maneuver to land softly on the lunar surface.
As initially planned by the RCSP team, the rover was to have been capable of driving at least 1 km (0.6 mi) when it reached the lunar surface; this is twice the required GXLP roving distance.
The RCSP is led by Tim Pickens, chief propulsion engineer and commercial space advisor at Dynetics.