If we competed against China by announcing (hefty) prizes for private orbiters and moon shots and so on, I think that'd give us an added PR victory as a defeat of centrally planned economic activity, as well. And it seems to me both cheaper and more likely to succeed.
I'm not sure if this is brilliant or insane, but either way it's inspired. Hell yeah! If we're going to treat space exploration as some kind of ideological political symbolic crap, then let's go all the way!
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I'm not sure if this is brilliant or insane, but either way it's inspired. Hell yeah! If we're going to treat space exploration as some kind of ideological political symbolic crap, then let's go all the way!