Please take your crazy elsewhere, this is a serious website.

More important: I hope I never see the day when NASA is responsible for the colonization of anything. Stop abstracting for a minute and think about what "colonization" actually means. Can you honestly envision NASA shipping families into space? I can more easily imagine them building a grade school.

Did he predict what's going to happen, when, and how bad, with sufficient accuracy to justify the massive reaction currently gripping the world? Oh, that's right, no-one has done that.

wow. Do you sit up at night and come up with these paranoid delusions? The rest of us just watched the Augustine committee and saw that the only recommendations they made were:

* NASA needs a strong technology development program
* Crew and cargo to LEO should be done by COTS-like procurement

And everything else was an "option" which required at least $3B/year more. Seeing as there was no way NASA was getting that much of a budget increase, those of us who are *sane* were not surprised when the administration enacted the recommendations and ignored the options.

But hey, if you prefer coming up with paranoid theories, go for it.

k, for a start, learn metric. Second, who *cares* how much per kg it is to launch a human rated vehicle (note the terminology "human", not "man", it's sexist). Humans are measured in seats, not mass. Falcon 9 is $5359/kg to LEO. $22166/kg to ISS (and only half of that can be pressurized). And may some day be $20M/seat if you buy 7 seats per flight. And that's likely to be the best you can hope for in the next 10 years. Sad, but true.

Yes, niche markets typically have highly fluctuating prices. Back when the first seats were offered on Soyuz there was very little demand.. people didn't even believe it was possible. Now there's a long list of potential customers, many who have been through the training and haven't gotten a seat yet. Meanwhile, NASA has pressured the Russian space agency not to make any seats available. Increased demand, less supply, of course the price is going to increase.

You can kindly fuck off too. Folks, if you have nothing on-topic to say, feel free not to say anything at all.

an increasingly common trait of the publishing industry, poor copy editing. Publishers, desperate to cut costs, have done away with copy editors

Yeah, you're not just whistling Dixie. This is one of the reasons why self-publishing is becoming more prevalent - it's kinda pointless securing a publisher without any of the benefits. Then there's the e-book distribution medium which permits the software-style "patch" or "update" model of correcting errors after the first sale.

ironically, the biggest problem with large solid rocket boosters is the handling issues.. just the same as LH2.

I can't understand if you just have a reading comprehension problem or if you're trying to equate a lunar rover with human lunar exploration.

Dwayne specifically said "and no mention about China landing a man on the Moon in the next decade, an occasionally-repeated claim made by some media sites and bloggers, for which there is no evidence". Please indicate how ANY of those links dispute Dwayne's statement.

This is why people get annoyed.. China is dreaming about what they can do with a 25-ton-to-LEO launcher and amateurs like you are declaring their military conquer of the Moon any-day-now.