The recent "Moon Base Alpha"release by Elon Musk and ESA's recent moon village announcement calling for increased private-government partnership, point towards a growing impatience to kick start large-scale lunar exploration and settlement. The Google Lunar XPrize initiative, which was launched in 2010 to encourage low cost robotic space exploration, is another such initiative, and is likely to give a much necessary boost to the sector. A review panel of the international competition arrived in Bengaluru, India, on a on a five-day inspection of Team Indus, one of the five privately-funded teams in contention for the $30 million grand prize. SpaceIL (Israel), Moon Express (USA), Synergy Moon (International), Team Indus (India) and Hakuto (Japan) are all gearing up to make a space craft that will make a soft-landing on the moon, with a robot that can travel at least 500 meters on the moon surface and send back high-quality images to Earth. All the five teams had won a million dollar prize for demonstrating the landing technology of their spacecraft on the moon in 2015.