Would there be a commercial benefit for an earth orbit station? I believe not at current prices, otherwise companies would have launched one. As soon as you co

Would there be a commercial benefit for an earth orbit station? I believe not at current prices, otherwise companies would have launched one. As soon as you consider private investment (as opposed to essentially charity funding of pure research/exploration), then looking at analogies vs an Antarctic site or deep ocean site may be quite relevant - those are also sites that are somewhat difficult to reach and build on but easier than Moon on Mars; so for any commercial argument in the form of "mining resources" there has to be an answer why suffer the difficulties on the moon instead of (lesser) difficulties in Antarctica.