lindbergh and the moon was why not give g all of this talk about a commercial space race i e g to the first year moon base is intriguing similar prizes have influenced aerospace development before the k orteig prize helped lindbergh sell his spirit of saint louis venture to his financial backers if memory serves the k prize would not have been enough to totally reimburse some of the more expensive transatlantic projects such as fokker s nungesser and other multi engine projects however lindbergh ultimately kept his total costs below that amount but i strongly suspect that his saint louis backers had the foresight to realize that much more was at stake than could it work with the moon who are the far sighted financial backers of today layne cook cook apt mdc com mcdonnell douglas space systems co
