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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. Re:and congress is correct not to allow it... by hswerdfe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If people are willing to take the risk, why not let them


    would the 5000 mine workers who died in China this year because of unsafe working conditions agree with you?

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