Billionaire blasts off for space station

M Holmes wrote:

In uk.sci.astronomy Sylvia Else wrote:


Mariginal cost pricing is a short term solution to a cash flow problem,
nothing more. It would probably make financial sense for NASA to pay the
$25 million themselves to put one of their own astronauts up there instead.


Well, they could replace you on your next holiday more cheaply. Perhaps
they should do that instead?

If they can get whatever technological or scientific benefit they're
after that way, then why not?

Sylvia.