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NASA's Own X Prize?
Roger_Explosion writes "NASA has announced that its 2005 budget includes 20 million dollars allocated to what it calls 'Centennial Challenges.' These are described as 'a series of annual prizes for revolutionary, breakthrough accomplishments that advance exploration of the solar system and beyond and other NASA goals.' The article on the X Prize site seems to suggest that this was a collaborative effort between the X-Prize organisation and NASA. You can read the story on the X Prize site."
but corporations are big evil giant profiteers. they do not care about helping society. these innovations are a sham. YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Thats only because I think they spend it much more efficiently than the government. I'd rather they cut most of NASA, but this is better than the massive wastes of money by NASA - The private center has some real incentive to actually produce where the government usually doensn't.