I'm working off bad karma. In 1993 I was paid by the Department of Energy to develop a Radiation Resource comic-book. You're already naturally exposed to cosmic rays . . .
Ideology is difficult to discern.
The technocratic establishment plays on our imagination to get massive public support for projects of dubious value. Self-serving greed poses as altruistic enthusiasm. Technically ignorant tax payers depend on the supposed objectivity of scientific experts making fateful decisions. You CAN be certain that somebody will be making galactic profits. The final frontier is financial.