Maybe the guy with the robotic kids from the other thread will go for it.

Wait! Let me set up my sound stage!

Great news. Thirty five years overdue. It doesn't matter if the mission fails with robots. I haven't read the article yet but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody makes the attempt in less than 5 years.

Wait! Let me set up my sound stage!

Posted by MasterCheat


FF for MC.

Reminds me of the Rammstein video for their song Amerika.

Can I borrow 30 million to finance my WallMart special moon rocket?

I like, Links 2 3 4

TPS,

Like the original X Prize for space flight this will cost significantly more than the prize money. So a fairly easy challenge makes sense. Long term the x prize is about fueling space development and a private company making it to the moon is a pretty good step towards that goal.

Besides if you think it should be bigger put together 30 mil and offer a prize for a Jovian rover.

SpaceX will probably make a run at this. They're building a rocket to make supply runs to the space station when the Shuttle stops flying.

And I think they've designed their capsule to make the lunar trip. They would need a lander.

www.spacex.com

Pretty cool website. I like the leave a lunar legacy for $10. Great way to raise money to fund the expense of space exploration. It's about time someone got started on this I always imagined retiring to the moon and this seems the way to do it. With the low gravitation mobility problems would be a thing of the past, the strain on your heart would probably be less too. Oh and just imagine how the girlys could jiggle, the perfect thing for a dirty old man to spend his final days watching.

Norm

Don't have the scratch. They would have to be satisfied with me paying for the launch party perhaps.

I thoroughly understand the purpose behind the proposal. I just think that it is too modest. Technology already exists and is probably close to being "bolt-on" type stuff. The challenge to fly around the world, or something of that nature at least was at the limit of what was possible.

Regards,
etc.

20 million winner, would not pay the bills
on the effort, 30 million is the total
for the payout to all parties that placed.

Maybe some surplus Russian boosters and
left over Mars rovers effort but I don't think
within the rules.

Well part of the point is to develop "afordable" space travel. So you have to make the prize small.

TPS thats just the point sure we can do it now but at what cost. Anything is possible with enough time and money, but what about less time and less money that is where technology starts to pay off.

Now if NASA really wanted to do something they would use their budget for a bunch of x prizes. With 5 year time spans and the, by Government standards, tiny budget of 16.7 biliion in 2007 they could sponser a whole host of x prizes. Imagine a 100 million x prize for a man going to landing and staying on the moon for a week. Or 75 million for a new rocket fuel. Or 75 million for an unmanned trip to mars. You could sponser all of them and 10 more like it and save the taxpayers billions and get more bang for the buck.

cheap bastards..

Go to the moon google will pay for the gas..