Comment & Debate
Robert Roy Britt. “10 Reasons to Put Humans Back on the Moon.” Space.com. December 8, 2003: “3. Foster commercialization […] There is no agreement among scientists over the role private enterprise ought to play in human spaceflight. Yet already, commercial companies help build the machines that carry astronauts into space. […] Many experts think space tourism and even certain mining and manufacturing will succeed in space if only entrepreneurs are turned loose (and perhaps assisted with federal money or incentives). […] “Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula I racers are now,” Rees says. “Perhaps ‘robo-wars’ in space will be a lucrative spectator sport.”