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NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis

Posted by samzenpus on from the would-you-like-a-trip-to-the-stars dept.

NASA plans on using $50 million in stimulus funds to seed development of a commercial passenger transportation service to space. Potential space taxi inventors have 45 days to submit their proposals. The proposals will be competitively evaluated and the winners will be announced by the end of September. It is unclear what other Commodore 64 games NASA plans on making a reality, but I hope Arkanoid makes the short list.

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  1. Re:Someone has to build the vehicles by G33kGuy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So you are saying that a stimulus to have a huge amount of people dump water from one ocean to the other with buckets would be a good stimulus because it would provide jobs?

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