Space exploration under capitalism is a depressing nightmare. All of the beautiful cosmos only matters insofar as it can generate a profit someday. Maybe one day the rich will get to destroy Mars in addition to Earth!

Space exploration under communism was aspirational. It was a goal rooted in exploration and discovery. The development of the technology necessary to survive the harshness of space was supposed to benefit all Earthlings. It represented hope for the future that through our struggle we could build a better world and someday a better universe. Imagine the first settlements on Mars being a Soviet Republic. Communism on the red planet.

Now it might end up becoming Ancapistan. I look forward to the day Elon Musk dies in a space travel disaster.