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b'(repeat) "The moon or bust\\u201d is now officially bust.\\xa0No private company was able to meet the Lunar X Prize challenge, and arrange for a launch by the 2018 deadline.\\xa0The $30 million award goes unclaimed, but the race to the moon is still on. Find out who wants to go and why this is not your parents\\u2019 \\u2013 or grandparents\\u2019 \\u2013 space race.\\nWith or without a cash incentive, private companies are still eyeing our cratered companion, hoping to set hardware down on its dusty surface.\\xa0Meanwhile, while the U.S. waffles about a return to the moon, India and China are sending a second round of robots skyward.\\xa0And a proposed orbiting laboratory \\u2013 the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway \\u2013 may literally put scientists over, and around, the moon.\\nThe moon continues to entice sci-fi writers, and Andy Weir\\u2019s new novel describes a vibrant lunar colony. Its premise of colonists launched from Kenya is not entirely fiction: the nation is one of many in Africa with space programs.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nAndy Weir \\u2013 Author of \\u201cThe Martian\\u201d and, most recently, \\u201cArtemis\\u201d\\n\\n\\nAllen Herbert \\u2013 Vice President of Business Development and Strategy for NanoRacks, LLC and author of an article about emerging space programs in Africa\\n\\n\\nGreg Schmidt \\u2013 Deputy director of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute at NASA Ames Research Center\\n\\n\\nJason Crusan \\u2013 NASA Director of Advanced Exploration Systems for Human Space Flight\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'