Quote Originally Posted by Mousey View Post
God help us, the last thing we need is space travel to become commercialised. Private companies have a lot to offer, but I hope only in partnership with an organisation like the UN. Humanity must reach out into space under the authority of its governments, not corporations. We're rightly fucked if we take our squabbles over natural resources between nation-states, companies, or individuals into space.
I think as well Mousey countries and governments slowly lost interest with space when the Cold War ended, the US and Russia had nothing to compete with each other over since then.