Heinlein Prize

This is pretty cool.

X Prize founder wins prize: The impresario behind the $10 million X Prize for private spaceflight, Peter Diamandis, has won a prize of his own — the first-ever $500,000 Heinlein Prize, endowed by the estate of the late science-fiction great Robert Heinlein and his wife.

Didn't even know that there was such a thing. The prize is for commercializing space. Heinlein believed that it was important for mankind to move into space and onto other planets. Mr Diamandis is one of the people moving things in the right direction.