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NASA Hoping To Create Super X-Prizes

Posted by michael on from the fly-by-night dept.

Rei writes "NASA is attempting to use a strategy of handing out contracts as prizes, akin to the Ansari X-Prize, instead of the contractor-preferred method of bidding and having payment before work is completed. They are hoping to have prizes worth as much as one billion dollars. The only hitch? Congress won't let them."

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  1. When in doubt: INVADE by Bad+Vegan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Actually, the best way to get this right-wing Congress to give NASA a virtual blank check would be to classify extra-terrestrial microbes as "possibly terrorist-related WMD" and then declare war on Mars.

    Forget the deficit: it's our PATRIOTIC DUTY to fund the Billion Dollar Mars Orbiter Metric Converter, because the TERRORISTS hate space travel.

    Nothing would move us along faster: we'd be getting Priceline deals on the daily Halliburton red-eye to the lunar colony before Jeb takes the oath of office......

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