This all plan is just redoing 60's, man to moon in telephone booth and telephone booth in tip of huge rocket. Nasa should leave orbital rocket launch with current technology to commercial companies like Space-X and focus developing new technologies. Air breathing space plane for LEO launch and VASIMR based reusable cruiser to travel from orbit to moon, asteroids and Mars. There need to be someone like Burt Rutan to invent new ideas. There is no sense to carry a lot of oxygen from earth to orbit for chemical orbit to destination vehicle when VASIMR works with fractional amount. Also the first few mach of delta V uses most of rocket fuel used. It is possible to get around 3 mach with traditional air breathing plane. Check XB70 Valkyrie, there was even plans to use it as Rutan's White Knight. All technology for XB70 is exiting, two of them has been made and did first flight 1964. Basically engine technology was same than SR71. With modern SCRAMJET engines even larger part of delta V van be made with air breathing engines. Reducing orbital launch cost to fraction with air breathing space planes and orbit to target cost by reusable VASIMR crafts opens door for new large scale space exploration. What hell is reason to stuck in old technology, get big contracts to old government contractors ?

If you think Nokia's position, choosing Android or WP7 will lead Nokia to be only hardware manufacturer where price is main competitive issue. That will lead price erosion, dropping profits per device, Exactly opposite than Apple's case. That would mean that Nokia will give up ever make good profits or compete with Apple any more. I am about sure that making standard WP7 or Android, profit per device won't be even 1/10 that Apple gets. That means that even selling 10 times more devices than Apple, Nokia would not make same amount of money and it is difficult sell 10 times more when there is dozens of competitors with similar devices with similar price in market. Based on Gartner Windows Mobile has lost 1Q09 10.2% to 1Q10 6.8% compared Symbian 48.8% to 44.3% . Most stupid choice would be switching loosing standard platform where you are just HW manufacturer of losing platform. Thing that Nokia needs is platform that is clearly best on market and that MeeGo clearly is and it needs platform where Nokia can differentiate from competitors, not be just HW manufacturers. Why I think that MeeGo is best ? It is based on standard Linux environment, not just dalvik and Java top of Linux kernel. For application development Qt and Qt Quick ( Qml and Qml components ) has lot of great innovations and Qt has already large OSS community and a lot of commercial users. Is user view, if you go and look MeeGo UI demo videos, it is one that can compete against Android and iOS.