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America should abrogate the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty, and in the meantime license commerical companies to develop outer space resources.

But they wont. The government doesn't want a lot of people in Space. They especially don't want a lot of people on a far off colony in space. Why? Because such people may, as England learned, declare independance and then the powers on Earth won't be able to control them. Unlike the New World, which is slowly being brought in line with the Old World, space is too vast for that. They may lose power never to regain it again.

No. If the government ever goes into space full throttle, it will be when they are confident of their ability to maintain control over all that happens there. Until then, they will keep throwing us occasional bones via NASA (which is a joke) and try to keep private individuals or companies out of space.

Tuor

I agree with your analysis. They don't want us flying the nest. But it isn't the government doing this, government is merely a tool in the hands of the controllers, some of whom seem to be here on this thread today; maybe it's the ANWR debate in the Senate today bringing them out.