"Chris" wrote in message
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So, what do you think the next X prize will bring? First privately
funded re-usable spacecraft to orbit the earth? To the moon? Looks like
this is gearing up to be the next big economy 'boom'

It will be interesting. However, its to bad that greedy American CEOs have
ruined engineering as a profession so much that now American schools
graduate less and less engineers each year, and of those graduates many are
foreign born. Perhaps the Chinese and Indians will do well. Once they rule
space they will rule the planet. But we can provide the marketing fluff.

Earl G