[cgbg]

While NASA claims differently, throwing money at it could not have fixed deep systemic management problems (including wokeness of various kinds).

It quickly became a bloated bureaucracy (as we typically see with mature government agencies).

Private manned space exploration is going to be the future in the US, and I would expect China (and perhaps Russia) to also have bases on the moon and eventually on Mars.

Imho the US private ventures will also fail unless they fully decouple from government funding and government control. That may be easier said than done since Con-gress loves to use regulation to cripple private industry.

Eventually the private ventures may be forced off-shore to locations where they can focus on the missions without pesky outside interference.

[telescope115]

I can’t disagree with the word you’ve written, Government is the 800 pound gorilla that the private space companies have to deal with.
I totally agree with the foreign space programs, too.

[Paul R.]

Eventually the private ventures may be forced off-shore to locations where they can focus on the missions without pesky outside interference.

I would not be surprised to see SpaceX do that, at least partially.