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Why won't NASA simply offer competitive prizes, rather than reward the most corrupt lobbyists?
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>>>"The whole point of these lower cost missions is to do a lot more of them than we can afford if we go with the gold-plated billion dollar systems. For the cost of a single one of those giant vehicles like Galileo or Viking, you can fly a bunch of the new generation missions. Personally, I'd prefer to see several missions to Mars, asteroids, comets, etc. over a single mission to one place. However, we have to find the balance between faster, better, and cheaper. In reality, you can pick any two."<<<

If THAT's your goal, then why not politically demand that NASA encourage numerous competing teams to get involved by finally giving more life to its recent (and hardfought) Congressional authorization to offer competitive prizes?

http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes

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