"For all mankind" apple TV.I fear, the future in space will be only for the rich, the very rich, science if only the interests of profits are there. Just as it is now.
Countries can't afford it, only multinationals can. They do not have the interests of mankind in it. Sadly only money!
Even NASA, being a U.S. government agency, relies on industry to fund snything.
And China, despite a community is regime, needs multinationals to support its space industry.
Ditto Russia!
India has of course just had a lander on the south pole of the moon. And that is heavily funded by same multinationals that our government has been trying to get deals.
Europe has a viable scientific space industry sponsored by industry of course. But its main interest is satellites.
The latest telescopes have the astronomical scientists scratching their heads, over the size and observations of new findings. Theories being questioned and what were thought galaxies are not, and they have no idea.
Unless the people who do live in space, do not have to pay, in any way, similar to the likes of the services, then there can never be a place where there is no materialism or charges for living there.
News today, that Sir Patrick is pleased with the opportunity of making a trek film Picard, after the series finished.
And I'm hoping to get the second season of the series 'Strange New Worlds' soon.
Won't pay extra for paramount tv.
Live long etc.
(Yes, sci-fi fan, I watch it all, anywhere I can, the dross mixed in with the seams of gold )
Not to far off the mark I fear
And just like any Colonialism, the rich go first ....
The rest of us go because the 1% need someone to serve them.
And then we populate it with even more poor people, who then challenge the prevailing regime
Ad infinitum.
Until some aliens challenge us for supremacy or we annihilate ourselves, via AI or our own violent natures.