You might want to take a few courses in economics, private industry and taxpayers funded every cent of this project.

You have mistaken the broker for the owners of the capital.

If you add the economic input of half of all americans and the total economic input of government, you could not fund the launch of a bottle rocket-where, exactly, do you think the funding comes from?

What is any project worth without funding?

For every brilliant technical success by NASA, you can see dozens of abject failures by the same broker.