“I hope they give a BIG nod to Asimov, Heinlein and other SF writers who predicted the idea of private space flight all those years ago.”
I don’t think we’ve achieved what most envisioned yet.
https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html
we went from NASA contracting firms to build things and NASA owning them to NASA paying firms to build things and leasing use of those things. hardly a good business model. Our R&D expense paid for technology any country can use.