Meanwhile, the feds are stifling entrepreneurial space:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=21352
Senate Report 109-280 Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill 2007
STATUS REPORT
Date Released: Friday, July 14, 2006
Source: Senate Appropriations Committee
"The Committee does not provide any funding in fiscal year 2007 for the Centennial Challenges program. Funding provided in previous fiscal years for this program is sufficient for NASA to run a prize based competition, as well as to verify that NASA will see tangential benefits from running such a program. Providing additional funds to a program based on prizes only creates a pot of unused funds while other aspects of NASA's mission are being cut or delayed due to a lack of funds."
For more information regarding why this decision is outrageous:
http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes