The Space Review has an article by Martin Elvis, "After Apollo: Creating an economically robust space policy by learning from the American West". The Wild West may not be the proper analogy, but it is from our past. As I will discuss in a future book review (
The New Geography of Jobs), economic growth for the US is tied to innovation, for new ideas and high tech development.
A strategy for achieving economic benefit from space must involve both government and industry, as did the development of the American West.
This idea of a form of partnership makes sense to me. The current, Federal Government paradigm appears to be approaching exhaustion. It is time for a new approach.
Regards — Cliff
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