[Richard Walker @ Sep 13th 2007 4:20PM]

thats not really much of an incentive! its gonna cost a hell of a lot more than that to get a lunar rover there! But if i won the lottery, it would be on my 'to do' list! lol

[Mercury7 Science Center @ Sep 13th 2007 4:30PM]

yeah, obviously building a rover is the easy part, the hard part is contracting a rocket capable of getting it there.....but it is a cool thing to do and someone will do it, I am sure spaceship one far exceeded the prize money offered to be successful....it is far more about the challenge, I bet scaled composites is having a meeting about it as we write this.

[Sma @ Sep 13th 2007 7:03PM]

I'm most likely wrong about this but i think space ship one cost less than the prize money to build, fuel and fly, but the R&D cost to develope something like that was higher. I like the idea though, it'll be neat to see if someone actually gets something up that works :)

[Richard Walker @ Sep 13th 2007 7:16PM]

@ Mercury7 Science Center: Yeah i'm sure Burt is having a wet dream as we speak!! lol

@ SMA: It cost $25 million (estimated) to build Space Ship One and the Ansari X PRIZE reward was just $10 million, so yeah your a bit out! But yeah i would be really cool. i would love to be part of one of the teams!!