"Ruediger Klaehn" wrote in message
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So the problem with the 1960 space race was not that there was a prize,
but
that the prize was so large that the motto on both sides was "waste
everything but time".

Apples and oranges. The "prize" was proving that the US was superior to the
Soviet Union, nothing more. There was no money to be won by the US
government.

You'd do better to compare such prizes to the old aviation prizes. For
example, the $25,000 Orteig prize that Lindberg won for becoming the first
person to perform a transatlantic flight.

Jeff
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