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"No one plans this wondrous achievement, and no one is forced to contribute toward its realization."

is not entirely true. No one plans it, yes; but, yes we are all tasked with subsidizing it in one way or another. Our forced contributions may be small when spread out over the population, but we make 'em!

Why don't you actually read what Boudreaux wrote?

There is money to be made in space but the technological cost is great, the risks are greater, and the profits may not happen for decades or even centuries. Good luck finding investors with pockets that deep and the patience to wait that long.

For the second time, Read what Prof. Boudreaux wrote.

Is putting a human being on the moon really as glorious as the fact that hunger has been all but eliminated everywhere that markets operate?

Not by a long shot.

You appear to be making a point irrelevant to the post.

As for your point, we know that anything government does is always more expensive than when done in the private sector and the resources used to send men from the moon where taken from private hands in the first place.

So, there's actually money to be lost in space?

>>Good luck finding investors with pockets that deep and the patience to wait that long.<<

This is where taxpayers come in, right? But the minute someone like Boudreaux comes along to say "Danger, Danger, Will Robinson" the true automatons come along and poo-poo the idea that there's any danger at all and that the spending and losses are more than justified by the 'benefits' — benefits that investors cannot see but just have to be there long-term. And then you get people like this guy who misses the point in what really was behind innovation.

Unless you're talking of interstellar travel – i.e. more life-bearing planets like Earth then: no there's not a great deal of money to be made in space. Well, maybe some from mining but that be about it. Terraforming Mars or Venus sounds about as technologically difficult as interstellar travel. Of course, humanity could slowly migrate across the Galaxy in a 'slowly but surely' way just as people can colonise the world in boats and by foot. However, real local space travel requires speeds close to light and there's no obvious way of doing it. True space travel requires speeds faster than light or the ability to warp from one place to another and then space travel seems nigh on impossible. It was a bummer that ion engines turned out to be a fizzler but oh well what can you do.

It's in the nature of man to explore the unknown. That's why there is a New York where the miracle of people going about their business is happening.

I don't know that we should return to the moon exactly, but we should spend our treasure reaching toward the stars not on Chicago thugs who are distributing it to their supporters so they can be re-elected in perpetuity.