[Steve Van Doorn]

The question should be how is it going to be financed?

Why should tax payers pay this bill? If there is money to be made let business send their people to space. Right now with the laws as they are it is impossible for business to explore space.

[Frank_Discussion]

"The question should be how is it going to be financed?"

I should be like the early U.S. frontier, two options:

1. The government builds a fort, you live near it or inside of it. The civilians build a town around the fort.

2. If you can get to the land you want on the frontier on your own nickel, have at it.

(I lean towards option 2, myself.)

"Right now with the laws as they are it is impossible for business to explore space."

Not impossible, but thorny. Once someone blazes the trails through the red tape, it will be even easier.

[RightWhale]

Right now with the laws as they are it is impossible for business to explore space.

That is a barrier all right. Maybe the toughest barrier of all.