Posted on 02/27/2006 7:21:34 PM PST by KevinDavis
About 40 members of the grassroots space advocacy group ProSpace are descending on Capitol Hill to promote a legislative agenda big on prize competitions and other government-backed efforts intended to foster commercial space transportation services.
ProSpace has been lobbying Congress every March for the past decade, pushing initiatives meant in one way or another to open space to the average citizen. Prize competitions were featured prominently in ProSpace’s 2005 "March Storm" agenda with the group urging lawmakers to give NASA authority to put up cash prizes in excess of $250,000 as a way to foster creative solutions to some of the agency’s technological needs.
The NASA Authorization Act of 2005, which became law late last year, granted the U.S. space agency $10 million in prize-making authority and permits the agency to put up even bigger prizes if it first gets approval from its congressional oversight committees.
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