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Posted by tourdemars to Budget at May 9, 2004 11:26 PM
What happens when worlds collide? NASA will find out next month — not by launching an interplanetary probe, but by inviting aerospace entrepreneurs to help flesh out the agency's plan to reward feats on the final frontier. The June 15-16 workshop in Washington will focus on drawing up NASA's first batch of "Centennial Challenges" — government-funded competitions that would encourage non-governmental teams to develop technologies vital to NASA's exploration initiative. For example, a better astronaut glove might earn its developers $1 million, while the first team to put a privately funded lander on the moon could win $20 million.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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1. I hope the first goal will be to after the x-prise has been acomplished is to have orbital flights from the same group of contestants.
2. Next I feel space groups need to focus on building mini Stations with manufacturing of rocket and materials of space use or recycling of existing items into other usable items of need while in orbit.
3. Launching of lunar probes is the next goal not only geared at exploration but also for habitat construction.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at May 10, 2004 06:23 AM
good
Posted by: bafpalbir singh at July 7, 2004 02:23 PM