Subsidies are sometimes the only way that amazing things like this can happen. Extremely rare opportunities are often expensive to take advantage of. Without sp

Subsidies are sometimes the only way that amazing things like this can happen. Extremely rare opportunities are often expensive to take advantage of. Without spreading the cost the way a nation-state can, there might not be enough people willing to support efforts to, say, get GPS satellites into space and enable entirely new industries and technologies. Sure, it might not be with the explicit support of every taxpayer who contributed, but that will happen in every government just as it will happen in a family trying to decide where to vacation. I, for one, hope that subsidies continue to go to those who can take us new places. As long as it's not purely because it's some congressman's nephew's new company.