re why not give billion to first year long moon residents in article apr aio jsc nasa gov kjenks gothamcity jsc nasa gov writes gene wright gene theporch raider net wrote announce that a reward of billion would go to the first corporation who successfully keeps at least person alive on the moon for a year then you d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin to be developed there d be a different kind of space race then i m an advocate of this idea for funding space station work and i throw around the billion figure for that reward i suggest that you increase the lunar reward to about billion this would encourage private industry to invest in space which should be one of nasa s primary goals ken jenks nasa jsc gm space shuttle program office kjenks gothamcity jsc nasa gov better faster cheaper daniel s goldin nasa administrator also would maybe get the russians involved after all they do have the resources to do it in part but they need the capital and the goal i wonder if renting the russians resources would be a disqualification michael adams nsmca acad alaska edu i m not high just jacked
