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By Ringold on 9/4/2006 4:16:07 PM , Rating: 1
400k for a few companies to play around? This is just a positive press release to make NASA sound like it cares about contractors beyond The Usual Suspects, as it accomplishes nothing.

Apollo benefited the larger economy in huge ways because it forced the pioneering of new technology. For christ sake, the Ares V, Ares I, and Orion are all kit-bashes of garbage we've generally already had. If NASA were at all serious, it'd be pushing this, not Orion, or would've stuck to any one of its previous projects like the Venture Star.

We'll all just get embarrased by the Russians again I figure. Soyuz has outlived Apollo. Buran was better in almost every way than the Space Shuttle. All Russia lacks is money, and oddly, they're more capitalist in their space program than NASA is :P

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By bdunbar on 9/5/2006 12:00:16 AM , Rating: 2
Well yes and maybe no. The centennial challenge is the umbrella under which this event is being held, second year in a row. It's about giving an incentive for private sources to come up with something better than NASA could do in-house.

It's a piddly amount, granted, but then that's our collective fault for not pushing Congress to push NASA to fund the program.


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