Posted on 03/20/2006 5:40:01 PM PST by KevinDavis
The Heinlein Prize is a $500,000 prize whose purpose is to reward the person or persons who achieve practical accomplishments in the field of commercial space activities. This is a significant sum of money and this author’s prior article on the subject (see “Choosing candidates for the Heinlein Prize”, The Space Review, February 6, 2006) appears to have attracted a fair amount of attention, judging from mail and calls received. It appears useful to discuss the Heinlein Prize in context to other similar prizes such as the Nobel, Lemelson, and Draper Prizes. The hope is that any individuals who are nominated for the Heinlein Prize will favorably compare in stature to the winners of these other prizes.
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
Heinlein bump!
My parents did me the great favor of teaching me to read out of comic books before I went to kindergarten. The first novel I ever read was "Red Planet". I can credit Heinlein with encouraging both my literacy and my life-long interest in not only space, but a long view of humanity's future. I hope this Award lives up to its name.
Heinlein is arguably one of the best writers to ever set ink to paper.
I grok that!
T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L.
That's a fact Jack!
Heinlein prize?
You will have to work hard to get this one....as we all know TANSTAAFL.
Damnation E.Allen....I shoulda looked first.
We've traveled similar paths. My name was always difficult to discern when ordering pizza over the phone. I adopted the "alias" Oscar Hogan and that problem went away. Such a manly name, and the respect....well!
Pay it forward bump!
Can you believe what the pork-barrelers are doing to the NASA-funded
competitive prizes program?
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&dbname=cp109&sid=cp109s0tv8&refer=&r_n=sr280.109&item=&sel=TOC_385521&
"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."
Discussed here:
http://www.spacepolitics.com/archives/001028.html
and indirectly here: http://www.spaceprojects.com/prizes
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