It is difficult to overestimate the necessity and, as we believe, the impact of the GLXP competition. There is no doubt that we are standing on the edge of the massive economic exploration of near Space, a revolution which in some parts like the satellite business is in full activity already. But there are more or less still the old players, the big national aerospace agencies, who are sharing the stakes between each other, so that the vast majority of the population of this planet is just a spectator on the brink of this huge pitch.

The GLXP has clearly the potential to be the beginning of the end of this situation. As already mentioned on the GLXP site, it's not unlike the times, when a certain Charles Lindbergh followed the call for a prize, and initiated with his success the transatlantic air-traffic within a few years.

But there's as well something which is different to those days long ago. These days we've got the internet, we've got global communication and information exchange – within seconds. The scope of such a competition is not comparable to any preceding one in the relatively young history of industrialization. Everything we do we're doing in front of the eyes of the world, and so this is not only a game for the richer part of our societies. We have to talk about our responsibility towards this planet, our inevitable obligation to solve the shameful problems with which our societies are still struggling.

It may look somehow far-fetched, but I'm certainly not the only one who believes that at least parts of our immense problems could be solved with the entrance into the never ending Spaces surrounding as, may it be our energy problem or may it be the threat our industrial production is causing to our nature and to our resources.
But whatever the solution might be, it always needs someone doing the first steps. We're not alone, and you can join us in this adventure...