After the Space Race

[Excerpt from the Chapter, "The End of the Space Race: The 90s" Dr. Dennis Huld]

...now that space travel was a reality the new challenges became (1) how to recoup beyond "simple" military and science gains and (2) fighting the argument that both groups were ill-equipped to do so. For corporations, the value of space travel was in the acquisition of real estate in what amounted to "international waters," esp. what laws governed such territorial claims. This allowed for an ethical "loosening of constraints" as well as added security in both containing accidents and the messaging of accidents on space station laboratories.