Past Perfect, Future Misleading

Manned spaceflight should
be an national industry not a government program.

Craig Fink

Where's the revenue stream that would interest industry?

The technology for establishing, say, a Moon base, has existed for
-decades- and is well within the technological capacity of industry.
That it hasn't been done is entirely because no one can think of a way
to make a buck at it.

If your best idea is to send people on joyrides, you're not going to
motivate industry.