MSFC Director: Commercial Space should be serious about Huntsville

[zaitcev]

Only problem is that Huntsville is, well, Huntsville. Other things being equal, where would you rather live?

Huntsville, of course. Checked the prices of hangars at Centennial (KAPA) recently? And they say that economy is stagnating, hah.

P.S. I love FTG but it's far out in the boonies. It's like people in Bay Area who hangar at Tracy and Byron.

[mwfair]

I appreciated the reminder that MSFC is not planning on dealing with payloads consisting of large amounts of gold.

Actually, they could get up there and bring back 200 tonnes of gold per year and pay for the HSF program entirely....

First things first:
"This is an exciting opportunity to study the effect of a hard-vacuum, zero-gravity environment on $50 and $100 bills," said NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.   "This is just another step in our long-term goal to put $1 billion on Mars,"

[mduncan36]

Shouldn't Huntsville/MSFC be more serious about commercial space instead?

I think you've hit it on the head. Commercial space launch appears to be the most certain thing in a very uncertain field. Making references to Spacex et al as "stop gap" providers really jumped out at me.