Pigs In Space
Space Law Probe:
Favoring productivity-enhancing and cost-saving technologies such as space elevators and other innovations, Professor Reynolds writes, "It's the free market that lowers costs, and empowering such competition will do more to promote American supremacy in space than any single R&D program. And he says, "the real key to successful space settlement over the long term is to take the work away from governments and turn it over to profit-making businesses."
(And importantly, the professor thinks there's nothing wrong with competing with China in space, either.)
The space spending issue can cut across party lines in unexpected ways. There are blue state Democrats who want NASA cut and only private capital, never tax dollars, to fund space ventures. And there are red state Republicans who support a big, strong, federally funded space agency.
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