Anything NASA touches costs 100 times more than it should and it takes 10 years longer than it should. Even though they are just government contractors now, the private companies doing rocket development are the only hope for fulfilling humanity’s destiny to live among the stars.
There are plenty of opportunities for making profits in space such as re-fueling communications satellites that otherwise are fully functional to mining asteroids. But I am afraid that once private companies pursue these NASA will try to interject itself and take its cut of the profits.
“...humanity’s destiny to live among the stars.”
Folly, pure folly.