NASA Prize Competition Solicits Ideas and Partners

colonist writes "NASA's prize competition program, Centennial Challenges, is asking for proposals and partner organizations. NASA plans four categories: Flagship Challenges (space missions), Keystone Challenges (technologies), Alliance Challenges (run by partner organizations) and Quest Challenges (students and other groups). You can also submit ideas for prizes."

Comments

Re:Radical thinking

[erick99]

Why don't you move to China? They have a space program I bet they are as "anti everything U.S." as you are. A marriage made in heaven.

Re:In other words...

[hobbesmaster]

Hey now, I'll take 15 billion for aerospace research instead of a day in Iraq any day of the week.

Re:Better to give us our tax dollars back

[king-manic]

While we're at it lets also privatize your executive and legaslative branches (no one notice, their basically corprate puppets on both sides any ways). Privitize your judicial system (again not too far from what you have now). Disband everything except your tax service and military (to enforce your tax collection).

MArk me a troll if you want, but seriously, why would it be an interesting idea to disband NASA. NASA is about as close to what you'd want a government agency to be. They fund things private sectors won't They provide innovation and techology then make it public. They get a lot done on a relativly modest budget (15b/year is modest). DND gets 380 billion this year. The national missle defence program gets 9.1 billion. Homeland security gets 32.2 billion. Religious indoctrination (No child left behind) got 12.4 billion. Vetrans bennifits was 63.6 billion.

For 15 billion a year, nasa is a bargain. For 380 + billion a year, your military is a bad subsidy for the low income south.