Here is my first post to The Space Review which is still here. I will be porting them all over here along with posts at Transterrestrial Musings and about the ‘Net. I have learned a lot about property rights in the last 2.5 years, but thanks Jeff Greason, for asking me to write this to the Aldridge Commission. Thanks to Jeff Foust for giving me a break. Thanks to the Commission for accepting the recommendation. 

It’s time to start thinking about commercialization and colonization of the Moon and Mars. Fifty years after the Wright Brothers, we had global airlines. Fifty years after the invention of the integrated circuit we have a trillion-dollar-a-year industry. Cell phones alone account for tens of billions of dollars of government auction revenue. We need to make the regulatory environment for 50 years after Apollo now.

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