high frontier labor market

If the US truly wanted to allow very many people in space, I have NO doubt
that we could have crews in orbit assembling habitats next year and have
them inhabited within 3-5. We COULDN'T do this with robots...not unless we
spend a couple more decades to develop them. We COULD accomplish it with
prefab parts shipped to orbit and assembled by crews of Humans on site.

From: Al Globus
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 8:40 PM
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] 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?