Why go in space?

Wealth, opportunities, jobs
-- Most everything made on earth can be made in space at less cost.
Manufacturing facilities can be made quickly using a few mold forms,
asteroid materials, sand casting, and assembly of molded pieces into
modules that interconnect.
-- Business means jobs and space has everything the bright
entreprenuer wants and the additional advantage of the flexibility
in controlling G-forces from many times that of earth down to zero-G
and the added increased productivity and any new product
possibilities discovered therefrom.
-- The world's oil and gas reserves are running out. We must deal
with the energy crisis and the depletion of natural resources. The
resources of space are essential to any serious effort to tackle
these problems.
-- A two-kilometer-wide asteroid holds more metal than all the ore
mined on Earth since the beginning of civilization. Half of
asteroids are water rich. Asteroidal materials are useful for
propulsion, building materials, life support, agriculture,
metallurgy, semiconductors, precious and strategic metals, to
manufacture structural materials, for solar photovoltaic arrays
which could be used to power space habitats and/or lunar habitats,
space tourist facilitation / accomodations (ie. orbiting hotels),
pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, ultra-pure crystals, for radiation
shielding, and on and on.
-- Services include manufacturing, construction, repositioning
asteroids, materials processing, mining, spacecraft inspection,
repair, welding, hull assembling, shipping, tourism, and more.

Your own spacecraft
One product that needs to be mass produced in space is an
interconnectable private transport vehicle and spacecrafts according
to customer specifications.

More successful missions
Humans give us a competitive advantage over those that use only
robots.
-- Humans are capable of dealing with the unexpected and the
unanticipated and therefore those things robots and equipment have
not been fully programmed for.
-- As needed, humans can retrieve any damaged equipment and robots
for later repair and upgrading.
-- Repairs, modifications, and improvements to robots and equipment
can be made. Humans can work on non-functioning or less than
optimally functioning equipment.

Life
-- A virus is likely to wipe out humanity unless we set up multiple
locations in space.
-- It's easier to control the air quality and thermal conditions of
a space habitat than an entire planet. People can breathe better
air. Terraforming terra may be needed soon but may never really
happen.
-- Earth's growing population and crowded conditions makes space
more appealing offering more room to inhabit and build upon.
-- Potentially dangerous asteroids heading for earth, moon, etc, can
be repositioned. An asteroid only needs a small nudge to miss the
earth completely. The cost can be recovered via adding a small
surcharge when pricing space products/services.
-- Over time as asteroid materials are shipped to earth, the cost of
the materials reduces. Because of the reduction in costs of raw
materials used by NASA and other space agencies, the cost of
launching people into space reduces thereby making possible the
launching of more essential personnel, people with average incomes,
and even make possible earth's evacuation should that ever be
needed. CYGO also wants to make the first earth lander/launcher
using the materials from asteroids as well as needed lightweight
components from earth (these would later be made by ourselves).
-- Currently, all known lifeforms are located only on earth. Given
the certainty of an event of cataclismic proportions occuring and
the uncertanty of just when that event will occur, it's important to
locate life, including ourselves, in multiple places in space.

Adventure, exploration, learning what's out there

Enjoyment and personal reasons
Space is fun. Ask anyone who has done spacewalking. Imagine space
sports or seeing Saturn up close. A mountain climber was asked why
he climbed the mountain. He said, "Because it's there." Sometimes
you don't need a lot of reasons to do something. Why do people
dance? Sometimes people have their own personal reasons. Sometimes
they have no reason that seems clear even to themselves. Sometimes
doing something just because you want to do it is good enough.

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