On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 02:43:33 -0600, in a place far, far away, "Paul F.
Dietz" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

The car analogy is bogus. Plenty of companies have built cars from
scratch, and had them work in their intended operating environment. Noone
has ever operated industrial processing machinery in space.

Because access has been so expensive that no one has been able to
afford to even attempt it.