Around 83 percent of NASA’s facilities are beyond their design lifetimes, and the agency has a $3.3 billion backlog in maintenance.
Having just submitted an article about a commercial spacewalk, I’m depressed that space is destined to be owned by corporations. This won’t get funded. Politicians will point to how much more efficient private companies do this. Eff.
Space will be inevitably be dominated by corporations that are multinational. This is early days with a mix of government and private companies that are not so global.
It’s just how economics work. I think there will be a handful of companies later
Heh, as our reach into space increases, we may end up with “multiglobal” organizations. (Interglobal?)