I don't much care for this take. In my opinion, a private and profitable space company is a massive, game-changing advancement in human progress. Maybe, just ma

I don't much care for this take. In my opinion, a private and profitable space company is a massive, game-changing advancement in human progress. Maybe, just maybe, we'll actually send people to the planets when it's in somebody's direct financial interest and ability to do so, rather than have to beg a bunch of image-sensitive politicians to fund it. Against that possibility and chance, I honestly don't give a damn about whether or not some of the footage is public domain. I'd rather argue about who has the right to do what with various bits of launch footage from our Martian colony. Beats the heck out of having more public domain launch footage to use in sci-fi movies, and having our crowning achievement in human space exploration being a handful of short missions to the Moon that left behind absolutely no useful infrastructure, and was only done to show up our geopolitical rivals.