Comments on: More prize lobbying http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/11/more-prize-lobbying/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-prize-lobbying Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: TORO http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/03/11/more-prize-lobbying/#comment-2578 Mon, 14 Mar 2005 04:25:55 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=474#comment-2578 Prizes for what?

What if SpaceShipOne had failed? As Rogers stated in his comission, this nation tends to go overboard re. short term success.

How about a prize for the first company that can statistically demonstrate to the 98% confidence level percentile that the passengers will either achieve LEO and return or bail out and return alive 4,999 times out of 5,000. They can just do 1/100th or 1/10th scale tests to demonstrate and collect massive data. They don’t even have to launch anyone.

I think that is worth 100 million dollars, and it will end the LEO rut.

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