re: I also did the Google search
I didn't mean to suggest Tom himself is somehow connected. Only that he thinks he is or rather the the Return to the Moon Board of the SFF is read by the Whitehouse.
The big problem isn't his interest in space commercialization it is his interest in doing it on the grave of Mars Exploration on some delusions of a Mars Mafia stopping Moon exploration for the past 35 years.
Most people who are interested in space have some concepts of commercialization to throw around.