Yeah, there was a lot of that “no economic incentive for humans to invest in such a venture” going around in 1492 ... Computers. cellphones, CAT scans are all just more “adolescent science fiction.”
The only real frontier for Americans is a focused navel gazing where all the action and economic benefits are to be found. Our Glorious Leader and his beloved minions have shown us the way!
“Computers, cell phones and CAT scans” all have had real economic benefits, required no government subsidies and were financed and developed by the market and consumer demand. “Moon village” of course will have no return on investment and will require the enormous taxation of the American people to build and maintain it. The truth be told the enormous expenditures spent by NASA other than weather and communication satellites have not resulted in the scientific and product cornucopia that its advocates predicted. BTW, given the laws of physics, aliens cannot visit us given the incomprehensible distances and man cannot “journey to the stars”.