[Finny]

Here's the deal. The nation that has technological dominance in space, will have military dominance on the planet. Now you can sit around and let Chinese and Russian governments do it while private industry here just blows millions on colorful marketing that blows sunshine up patoots, or we can elect a candidate who seeks to either fix NASA or create a reasonable alternative, and lean into meeting the future prepared to maintain dominance in space.

NASA is awful right now, but that can be fixed. In an endeavor such as space exploration, especially considering that the nation that dominates space WILL have military/defensive/offensive dominion in the world, means that yes, this is one area where indeed government should be involved.

I like Ted Cruz's take on it, myself. As for the idea that private industry needs to bring forth space exploration, the only chance of them being able to do it profitably would be for a guy like Cruz to come along and annihilate all the government agencies that today make it a losing proposition.

Take your USS Enterprise with Scotty snark, sit on it, and rotate. :-)

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Take your USS Enterprise with Scotty snark, sit on it, and rotate. :-)”

Aye aye Captain lighting the M80 fuse for takeoff. :-)

Do you have any clue that we still have the same basic propulsion system we had in the 60’s? China and Russia are not any better. Its a joke. We and they are not going to be doing any space exploration anytime soon without a breakthrough.

Private Industry will hopefully at some point invent, patent and build for profit a real Captain Kirk spaceship. Then we can go play in the stars. :-)