Today PM caught up with Peter Diamandis, the CEO and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation, at the Google Lunar X PRIZE summit at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. News that private space will be playing an expanded role in NASA's 2010 budget has created a buzz among the competition's 20 teams. "Everyone's excited this might mean a chance for a much larger market for the technology that the Google Lunar X PRIZE teams are creating," Diamandis says. Here's his personal take on the budget.