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After the X Prize

Posted by michael on from the lottery-ticket dept.

rscrawford writes "'Robert Bigelow, chief of Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace, is apparently setting higher goals for private spaceflight endeavors with America's Space Prize, a $50 million race to build an orbital vehicle capable of carrying up to seven astronauts to an orbital outpost by the end of the decade,' according to Space.com. Anyone think it'll happen?"

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  1. Yankcentric orbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    America's Space Prize, citizens of other nations need not apply.

  2. Re:Getting them up is the easy part by Nutria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...it's getting them down in one piece that's difficult.

    God, that is the most original joke I've ever heard in my entire life!!!!!!

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