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Instead of putting Men and Women on Moon or Mars or Jupiter's Moon, how about the new mission be "create environment for 100 spaceX like companies to thrive" I reject the premise that government should be creating these missions or setting these big audacious goals

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The government is leading the way because they have NASA budget to spend on completely unprofitable, but scientifically interesting projects.

Those free markets exist after the government already spent all the R&D money needed to make it a reality. Market-based plans can only happen after the research is done, since companies are really bad at long-term R&D with no clear exit.

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