{"id":466,"date":"2006-12-02T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2006-12-02T12:21:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T17:21:12","slug":"funding-for-nasas-centennial-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Funding for NASA&#8217;s Centennial Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=423\">posted<\/a> a link to TopSpacer&#8217;s article at hobbyspace.com, an article discussing &#8220;funding for the Centennial Challenges program\u00a0will be zeroed out for 2007&#8221; and wondering what that meant.\u00a0\u00a0Then a few days ago, the Space Frontier Foundation issues a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-frontier.org\/PressReleases\/2006\/20061127savechallenges.html\">press release<\/a> saying essentially the same thing that TopSpacer&#8217;s article did.\u00a0 I contacted Jeff Krukin, the Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, and asked him if the current games are in jeopardy.\u00a0 He replied that they are not;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The prized that have already been announced are funded with money appropriated in previous years.\u00a0 Future (not yet announced) prized are dependent on new funding provided in FY2007 or later, so there is no funding for new prizes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yesterday, over at Alan Boyle&#8217;s Cosmic Log, he <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2006\/12\/01\/16125.aspx\">said<\/a> essentially the same thing; funding for the existing prizes (including the Space Elevator challenge) is there, but funding for NEW prizes is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, I had posted a link to TopSpacer&#8217;s article at hobbyspace.com, an article discussing &#8220;funding for the Centennial Challenges program\u00a0will be zeroed out for 2007&#8221; and wondering what that meant.\u00a0\u00a0Then a few days ago, the Space Frontier Foundation issues a press release saying essentially the same thing that TopSpacer&#8217;s article did.\u00a0 I contacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}