It's kind of mind boggling to me as a non-American how the US can spend such vast amounts of money on defense and so relatively little on space. Surely even fro

It's kind of mind boggling to me as a non-American how the US can spend such vast amounts of money on defense and so relatively little on space. Surely even from a purely egoistic perspective the prestige and potential profit of being the only serious player in "space industrialism" must be worth a few less fighter jets?