Re: Orbital X-Prize?
From: Scott Moore (samiam_at_moorecad.com)
Date: 10/05/04
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Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:58:36 GMT
Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> "Bootstrap Bill" <wrcousert@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>
>>What if Bill Gates were to offer $1 billion to the first person to achieve
>>orbital flight twice in one week using a fully reusable space craft. Could
>>it be done in less than ten years and without any government assistance?
>
>
> $1 billion? With no doubt, yes. Even the usual suspects could do that.
> Fly a person twice to orbit, hah. Easy as a piece of cake if you have a
> billion to throw at that. Well, not exactly easy, but doable. At least
> when you have a business plan after doing it twice. (Not very different
> than the X-Prize which is not exactly rewarding when you're just after
> the $10 million, even for Scaled Composites)
>
> Now, if you'd add "...and do something useful there, like dock to a
> space station, keep it running, fly more than twice (like, 100 times),
> keep astronauts trained for the flights, keep the infrastructure
> running, prepare for EVA, have some redundancy, do real science (or
> whatever you want to do there), etc", I could express some doubt. Maybe
> 10 or 100 billion?
How about a $200 million prize to go rescue the Hubble ? That would actually
be worth the money to Nasa !
Nasa -> No Access to Space, Actually.
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