The next big project for J.J. Abrams, the director of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", isn't another blockbuster film. It's a 9-part documentary web series about the teams competing for the Google Lunar XPrize, a $30 million competition to send an unmanned rover to the moon.
In order to win the prize, teams have to build a rover that can roam around the moon for 500 meters and take high-definition images and video to send back to Earth. They have until the mission deadline at the end of December 2017 to make it all come together.
16 teams — including a father and son in Vancouver and a group of IT specialists in India — are still in the running.
The series, called "Moon Shot," debuts on Google Play on March 15th and YouTube on March 17th. Check out the trailer below.
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