high frontier labor market

On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Victor Smith wrote:

> Ok, so I can exaggerate with the best of them. The point remains
> that if we want to be a spacefaring race, we have to get more MEN
> (and women, of course) into space. It may not be quite as simple as
> I painted it, but it certainly neednt be as complicated and
> doubtful as so many others paint it either. Maybe we could start
> with a crew dedicated to mitigating the orbital debris

Except that robots can do this a lot better.

How about if we bring down the price of launch so that people that
want to go into space can afford a ticket?