If someone was willing to take on the operating costs and still lease out access/experiment time for anything less than billions, NASA would be champing at the

If someone was willing to take on the operating costs and still lease out access/experiment time for anything less than billions, NASA would be champing at the bit to give it away. However, I can't imagine why any commercial entity would be interested in burning cash in LEO, unless they have a very lucrative microgravity production requirement. But so far that scenario has just been a fable.