Earth-Moon Network = Maturing Space Industries

> If government intervention
> were to take place anywhere, the most promising would be in the
> area of risk management, such as providing insurance for high risk
> ventures.

Actually, the government already does some of that, at the
billion-dollar
liability level (partly by treaty). Also, PERMANENT has a nice list of
things
the government could do to promote private space development:

http://www.permanent.com/ep-ghelp.htm

Arthur