Getting Back Into Space

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