Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.
The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.
If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.
But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.
We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas.
Solar will outcompete other technologies.
We all know the Internet didn't explode until it became a commercial enterprise. Space communication will probably have the same characteristic.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.