Re: $2700 per kilo?
Robert A. Heinlein in The Man Who sold The Moon. Published 1950.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Sold_the_Moon
The technical problems are solvable with money and talent. To solve the tougher financial problems, Harriman exploits commercial and political rivalries. He implies to the Moka-Coka company, for example, that rival soft drink maker 6+ plans to turn the Moon into a massive billboard, using a rocket to scatter black dust on the surface in patterns. To an anti-Communist associate, he suggests that the Russians may print the hammer and sickle across the face of the Moon if they get to it first. To a television network, he offers the Moon as a reliable and uncensorable broadcasting station.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
