[That is correct. Underfunding the project is a sure way
to kill it.]


Not necessarily, NASA could simply post a $1billion Moon prize for fiscal 2005.
If there are no takers, then NASA saves that $1 billion and next year it posts
a $2 billion Moon Prize, by 2014 the Prize will be up to $10 billion, by 2024
it will be $20 billion.

Tom