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Re: Bad news for NASA
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Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:00:14 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
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“The subcommittee even killed the small, $20 million down payment on a new
NASA project to offer prizes to achieve new space technologies and systems.”
Now that’s just stupid. The X-Prize generated a ton of positive awareness on
affordable space exploration, and some bright boy at NASA put 2+2 together
and proposed a similar prize incentive - a paltry sum, compared to their
regular budget, but substantial enough to grab attention. Poof - gone.
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That sucks. That was a great way to potentially generate billions of dollars in
NASA R&D without having to spend tax dollars to pay for it all. It also allows
a greater variety of ideas to be explored, since noone has to justify
experimenting with more than one at a time.
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Bad news for NASA
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| And you thought the brouhaha over the HST was intense... this one will turn into a big old catfight before it's over. (URL) Basically, the House Appropriations subcommittee in charge of NASA's budget just gave a big thumbs-down to the space agency's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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