[RadioAstronomer]

but I still say that private enterprise is more than capable of giving birth to such things

Where is the return to the stockholders for a Mars mission, space telescope, radio telescope, map of the surface of Venus, gamma ray telescope, etc?

Some things require Gov funding to be accomplished.

[Jaysun]

Where is the return to the stockholders for a Mars mission, space telescope, radio telescope, map of the surface of Venus, gamma ray telescope, etc?

Some things require Gov funding to be accomplished.

Yes I know. As I said before, they have a role. I just wish it wasn't such a money pit that's all.