true...
and anything that's good for the cause is good enough for me.
Though I'm a believer in space tourism, I guess I grew up thinking--probably like many of you--that we'd move en masse into space because, like Kirk and Picard, we knew that it was fundamentally the right thing to do.
Things are just shaping up a little differently, I suppose. If the path to the future, for now in any case, is paved in part by pop-stars and semi-retired billionaires, so be it.