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I was watching a discovery programme about rockets and I was wondering, Would we be able to go for the X-prize.
The X-prize is $10 mil to the first private group to put a craft into space with 3 people in it.
Would it be too difficult?
It would be good advertising for a Mars Mission and $10 mil would be quite nice...
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I would not think the Mars Society would go for something like that.. I agree with you that it is a great oppertunity to get some PR for us but it requires a good ammount of capital to construct a space-faring vehicle. To put things in perspective, the American X-15 cost roughly $300 million. Yes, some of that was research money but it would still not be cheap unless we could find an aerospace corporation willing to donate a vehicle..
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The X-Prize is not a break-even proposition. The estimated cost of building a vehicle and winning the prize is around $20 million. The reward for winning the X-Prize, however, is the space tourism market, which will be opened once the prize is in hand. As lucrative as that is, it doesn't apply to the Mars Society. Although I'm sure that a large number of MS members support space tourism, space tourism doesn't do much for bringing us closer to Mars.
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If X prize is given after space tourism starts,how long may we wait?any idea?
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