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Wed Apr 28 01:32:28 1982
Solar Max Repair
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE at MIT-MC>
Bill Haynes of aerospace corp proposes that Congress ought to
put up a PRIZE of $200 million for the first commercial company
to repair a satellite in orbit and restore it to operation; and
something like $2 billion  to the first company to use some
reasdonable quantity, say a ton, of lunar (or any
extraterrestrial material) (in situ) (ie not a fallen asteroid)
in a commercially successulf product.
	The idea is that these capabilities are badly needed,
and it costs nothing to offer the prizes--while if they are
claimed we would CHEERFULLY pay over the money tax free...