This. A thousand times this. Even for just US itself, the Spaceship program might well have a chance to prove to be as existentially important as the Bikini At

This. A thousand times this. Even for just US itself, the Spaceship program might well have a chance to prove to be as existentially important as the Bikini Atoll tests (if we consider that it increased the believability of MAD and prevented nuclear holocaust). If not that, it will likely still make US have an incredible lead in mass to orbit capability which might lead to dibs on, well, whole stellar objects like moons to mine, planet to realistically colonize ...