OK, I'm back again....

Surely, the reason for the boom in flight was that applications could be
seen for the technology, and the development costs were seen as OK for the
potential returns.

In the space arena, some commercial space involvement is profitable after
all, the comms sats are nearly all commercial. Commercial enterprises will
cherry pick, you won't find them doing science for its own sake, and sadly
men in space has yet to have a cost effective use as far as the bean
counters are concerned, so end of story.

Brian

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Brian Gaff....
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