re why not give billion to first year long moon residents 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
