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Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl
That's quite clever of you, razark. 
NASA has actually already entered into agreements resembling what you posited, but it hasn't worked out yet, simply because the economic potential of doing anything other than just putting up comm satellites is negligible. Behind satellites, tourism is the next industry with the most potential, if that tells you anything about what kind of economic potential lies in space at the moment. In any case, hybridizing NASA with private industry is a wise move, one whose benefits we will see as soon as we can figure out a way to make space productive. |
I agree with both of you on that. I think that mining of Near Earth Asteroids maybe what that will make space productive. (I've posted on this subject before in other threads so I won't repeat my self here, its late and I'm tired).