“WhiskeyX, You lead; we’ll follow. Also... you put up the funds.”
Already been there and done that. I won’t be around that much longer, so it is time for the following generations to take on the task for their descendants. I and my colleagues lobbied Congress to build and operate the Space Shuttle that was used to build the International Space Station (ISS). My generation got us to the Moon and manned the first human habitats in space for the past 44 years. Bigelow has orbited the first prototypes for commercial space stations, Genesis I and Genesis II. The Chinese have launched their first in a series of Chinese space stations, the Tiangong 1 in 2014.
Shake a leg and get on with the job of corralling an iron rich asteroid before someone else not so pleasant gets the job done.
“....My generation got us to the Moon and manned the first human habitats in space for the past 44 years....”
Your generation was vastly different than what we have following-on now, brother.
And I was just busting your chops a little; no offense intended.