Yeah. The general rule of thumb is that it costs $10,000/pound to put something into orbit. The cost would increase by orders of magnitude once you include all

Yeah. The general rule of thumb is that it costs $10,000/pound to put something into orbit. The cost would increase by orders of magnitude once you include all of the other resources needed to track the experiment, but this does seem like a relatively cheap experiment to run in space. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/astp.html_prt.htm http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/a... I think what's preventing this is: 1.) NASA can only run a certain amount of experiments at once and I'm sure there's a long waiting list. If they run this one, something else doesn't run. 2.) Space may not be the extra variable-free environment we're hoping for here: tons of intense electromagnetic activity and so forth.