Near term prospects for fully commercial spaceflight are not good

Most companies fail in 3 to 5 years and 90% of companies fail within
about 10 years.
Given the number of significant commercial space startups at the
present time it is
not likely that commercial space efforts can contribute
"substantially" to, say, a
return to the moon. I am not including suborbital flights in this.
That's a different
story.

Yes, but surely if its a partnership and knowing the pitfalls by now, a
considerably cheaper return to the moon, should people want it, can be done
using commercial and international collaboration. All it needs is for
everyone to put their private or commercial or national egos into cold
storage for a while and work toward a common goal.

Brian

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Most companies fail in 3 to 5 years and 90% of companies fail within
about 10 years.
Given the number of significant commercial space startups at the
present time it is
not likely that commercial space efforts can contribute
"substantially" to, say, a
return to the moon. I am not including suborbital flights in this.
That's a different
story.