As an engineer who worked for a dozen years as a missile man, and was an amateur rocketeer with some tenuous connections to RRS (mentioned in the article), I find this fascinating. Sure, it's fascism. But they're gonna spend the money anyway. Maybe Musk can take America to the moon again. It's the only way it will happen.
And the one-way Mars trip? I'd think a long, long time before saying no. And maybe I'd say, 'Yes', under the right conditions.
Which part is fascism?