Rent the space, a million a cubic foot/day. Private companies would stampeed for the space, other companies would pop up like fleas to deliver people and material.
Send the cash to treasury, fund NASA as a separate line, let them launch microbots to the least likely places in the universe to discover everything of no value.
Crystals and metals produced in 0g are still classified for a reason. We have the people and the technology... only thing stopping them dead is... government.