Brant Sponberg
Brant Sponberg
arena prize ready rocket undertake
We're ready to undertake two new prize competitions in the arena of suborbital rocket flights.
broaden challenge continues efforts innovative interest
This challenge continues NASA's efforts to broaden interest in innovative concepts.
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All of NASA's prizes to date are for one-quarter million dollars or less. We expect these two challenges to be considerably larger.
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This year's unclaimed prize money will be added to next year's, and that alone should boost the number of entrants. This is an exciting start. We don't need to try to pick and choose which approaches might be successful. We simply invite all new ideas to come and give it a shot, and then reward the best.