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Originally posted by novice
Why not give the 10 million to the NASA r&d dept. Surely they're way ahead of the competition. Let them come up with a design, drawing on their vast experience of what does and doesn't work, then sell it to privateers along with exclusivity rights. If all he wants is a view he can go to Russia and buy one.
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Riiiiight, because NASA has developed how many new space launch systems in the last 25 years? Zero?
Of course, they did blow through over a billion dollars on the X-33 and X-34 reusable launch vehicles, which were never completed and never will be.
Read about the $10M X-Prize and its real purpose at
http://www.xprize.org/
Private enterprise is the true fountain of innovation.
argonaut