[Vermont Lt]

We’ve gone past having the government drive the space program.

That’s the meaning of capitalism.

[buckalfa]

We’ve gone past having the government drive the space program.

That’s the meaning of capitalism."

Yet will the profit motive prevail for America if China's single focus militarized space program succeeds in occupying the strategic high ground of the moon? Or am I foolish in thinking in nationalistic terms when profit can be obtained regardless of which country wins the new space race?