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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...

Santa Clara, California - 8/26/05 Masten Space Systems announced today that it has become an Official Partner of the 2005 Countdown to the X PRIZE CUP, which will be held in Las Cruces, New Mexico from October 6th through the 9th. “We share the X PRIZE CUP’s vision of making space a place that people can expect to travel to in their lifetime", said David Masten, CEO of Masten Space Systems. “We are helping realize that vision by building extremely affordable suborbital launch services. We’re putting the cost of microgravity research into the ‘bake sale’ range.” The X PRIZE CUP...

A pair of gifted seventh graders from Los Alamos won a first place national award for a space science project. For their prize, Micah Putnam, 13, and Jake Poston, 12, will be going on an excellent adventure this summer to Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala.