Jerry Pournelle on the space initiative: a first look
Here.
I tell him the same thing I tell everyone else. Prizes are a great idea, but they will never work. It would take 40 people to manage a prize program, not 20,000. And no government bureaucracy will ever agree to anything that destroys that bureaucracy, even if it would help accomplish the purpose the bureaucracy was created for. Unfortunately, this applies to a LOT of government programs.