Usuario1
If you're going to lead a space frontier, it has to be government; it'll never be private enterprise. Because the space frontier is dangerous, and it's expensive, and it has unquantified risks.
Usuario2
And under those conditions, you cannot establish a capital-market evaluation of that enterprise. You can't get investors.
Usuario3
When you put money directly to a problem, it makes a good headline.
Commenter Name
When I look at the universe and all the ways the universe wants to kill us, I find it hard to reconcile that with statements of beneficence.