NASA.......35 years later, same cost, and LONGER timeline!

So NASA has thrown down the gauntlet. $100 Billion, 12 years.....to the moon.

Wouldn't it be neat to say, "Hey....let's see if we can beat them." Imagine a group of people get together...somebody with money, somebody with aerospace experience, a few engineers, a few programmers....and they do it for $10 billion and in 6 years?

Look what the SpaceShipOne only cost $30 million to develop (yeah yeah, I know it only achieved 'low earth orbit' altitude of 67 miles)

I mean, NASA isn't really attemping anything new here (according to this site http://www.asi.org/adb/m/02/07/apollo-cost.html) it cost about $100 billion in today's dollars to go to the moon last time. You'd think we could do it cheaper today, right? It took 10 years last time...they are going to do it in 12 this time....even slower!

hmmm....imagine....