Some things to keep in mind...
Commercial endeavors didn’t start from scratch.
They leveraged off of what NASA did many decades ago
that cost American blood and treasure.
Commercial is about pursuing profit. Money. The
quarterly report. Good! I champion in.
But think hard that much of that profit will come from for now, government contracts. Still needing government moneys to survive.
But profits are not always cash, that is what NASA should be doing, the truly pioneering missions that push the edge because that is what ends up changing humanity. That is a different sort of profit, and it enables the other in time.
Both paths are critical, one does not negate the other.
It doesn’t get any clearer than that. Good post.