[NicknamedBob]

Imagine that a typical taxpayer decides to plunk $25 into this "lottery." Even without an interest in space exploration, he knows that he can probably unload a winning ticket for upwards of a million dollars, and I've suggested that income be tax-free!

People would be jumping on it from the lottery aspect alone!

I'd have multiple winners, with perhaps every ten millionth $5 ticket being chosen at random. That's fifty million for a ride into space for someone, and who cares about who it might be? Ten million to one odds against winning, but a tax-free million if you do! Not a bad lottery!

[RightWhale]

The money will disappear into a black hole. Even Carnegie would sell short on that deal. What is the true power form of investment vehicle? The best forms of debentures? Pennies saved Old Ironsides, but only up to a point, now it's another Gov't Institution. Like the Post Office.