Although there is active interest in the business community to put projects into space, many business leaders are looking for help to get there. Creative government assistance may be on the horizon. There are politicians in Washington, D.C., who support tax incentives for business investment in space. Right now it's hard to believe that if there's something you can manufacture in space, you could factor that in as a credit on your April tax return. It might be several years from now, but I believe it will happen.
New technology is sometimes hard to put a price on.
It's hard to measure the benefits of something that, for example, saves lives. There are certain drugs that we'll likely discover as a result of space research. For the space program to realize its future, however, NASA needs to become more efficient. There's a natural reluctance to change, and the transition is not easy. But NASA must change or not survive as we know it.