Man. Quit flaming the board.
It's Cap's right to flipflop nations. Hell, many players have done it in past NESes (and in this NES too). So it doesn't really matter, does it?
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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The Asgari Stephens Foundation Prize
The objective of the Prize is to create radical breakthroughs in space and other technologies for the benefit of humanity. Taking a lesson from the history books, the prize is modelled early aviation prizes. Between 1905 and 1935, hundreds of aviation prizes stimulated the creation of 100s of diverse aircraft designs, each of which explored different regions of flight and different methods for optimizing speed, safety and low-cost travel. Because of prizes like this and the subsequent aircraft development, we now have the modern aerospace industry.
In the same way, the prize will start with a small objective and as each objective is achieved, a new objective is set for teams who join the competition. The first team to achieve any objective will be given RM15 million (approx 0.75 eco - based on Goober's reckoning), the second team RM10 million and the third team RM5 million.
The first objective of the prize is to achieve sub-orbital flight. As such, the objectives are: -
- Privately finances, builds & launches a spaceship, able to carry three people to 100 kilometers (62.5 miles)
- Returns safely to Earth
- Repeats the launch with the same ship within 2 weeks
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ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE MALAYSIAN MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Ladies and gentlemen, people of the world.
In conjunction with the prize competition, the Malaysian government is announcing the
Angkasa space program. Our objective is to successfully establish a moon base by the year 1994.
With the hopes of achieving this pinaccle of techonology acheived by the Americans, the Russians, the Europeans, the South Americans, and most recently the Commonwealth Union, Malaysia will announce that it has decided to join the Space Race.
Thank you.
Dato' Seri Najib Abdul Razak,
Minister of Science and Technology