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Ken Davidian He's talking about the orbital prizes discussion on the Arocket listserv a couple years ago, and going to give an update on Centennial Challenges (Two competitions coming up in the next five weeks). Major points: Value of purse: bigger is better Now showing an NASA internal study based on conversation with Bigelow (June 2004) Bottom line: no orbital prize. Centennial Challenges Status Five allied organizations help manage the program for now fee, NASA only puts up money. All of taxpayers' dollars go to purses. Their benefit is to get visibility by associating themselves with NASA, and they're allowed to use the "meatball." May 2-3, astronaut glove challenge in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Just testing the bladder restraints. Regolith excavation at the Santa Maria fairground later in May, using eight tons of regolith simulant from Wisconsin. Personal Air Vehicle is coming up in August (at AirVenture?) Beam Power, Tether, and Lunar Lander coming up in October at the X-Prize Cup. Next year is a potential MoonROx competition in June, to get breathable oxygen (2.5 kg in four hours) from lunar simulant. Had problems last year with people who apparently didn't read the rule books. No new appropriations from Congress for this. Had to figure out how to take the money they had in hand and distribute it for prizes. have a plan out to 2011, but doesn't allow new prizes unless Congress comes up with more money (was in discussion for three new competitions for $7M, but broke them off until they get more money). Recognizes frustration of dealing with NASA when it reneges all the time. Many purses broken up into first, second and third place. In future years, if they get money, the lunar excavation and oxygen extraction will be combined into a single competition. In response to a question, he points out that private prizes have much more flexibility if they can raise their own money, because they won't be hindered by all of NASA's constraints. Notes that they were also looking for a lunar robotic landing challenge, with a purse of $45M. Ed Wright notes that there's a Capitol Hill roundtable planned to discuss prizes on the 2nd and 3rd of June. Posted by Rand Simberg at March 24, 2007 11:09 AMTrackBack URL for this entry:
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