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Increasingly, public endeavors are propping up space exploration — from space tourism to commercial business interests. Now, search engine giant Google and the X Prize Foundation are funding a $20 million challenge to land and operate a robotic rover on the moon by 2012. Will money-making opportunities eventually overtake NASA's budgetary constraints to play a role in shaping the country's long-term space goals?
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Re: Space Capitalists
