Despite all the hype by bazinga brains, space exploration is one field that capitalism is inherently terrible at because of how atrociously unprofitable it is. The upfront cost is, the labor cost, the maintenance cost, well everything one need to actually do shit in space are very expensive. And in return for what?

All the traditional avenues of capitalism doesn't work in space. Space manufacturing is unprofitable because terrestrial manufacturing would always be cheaper, the space is way too resource rich that it would be the interest of space capitalists to halt exploitation of space to maintain scarcity, and of course there's no preexisting foreign economy for capitalists to plunder and turn into a periphery. And before you say "commercial satellite", isn't. Despite the image of internet being beamed from space, in reality the internet is largely run through undersea cables. The satellites running around in space are usually communication satellites subsidized to provide potential military communication capability, or scientific satellites which obviously are funded by the public.

That's why pretty much all the current space capitalists, despite of their marketing campaign about colonizing Mars and building Earth 2.0 in practice put hedge their bets on space tourism. Except that various companies have tried going into that ventures for decades already with little to show. Like before SpaceX or Blue Origin came into picture we already have Virgin Galactic burning money for years with little to show.

And honestly once you get past the marketing nonsense, space tourism sucks ass. Literally all the hype around space tourism is in the pure novelty of going to space, but once you're up there what there is to do? It's like the early days of flying where you have aviators giving paid tours for people curious about the miracle of flight (or in the Soviet Unions, atheists showing peasants that there's no heaven up in the clouds), but that novelty wore off in just a decade. Oh, maybe they'll built some kind of space theme park or resort or something, right?

Which leads to something that bazinga brains always forgot: space is hostile to human biology. Going to space is fucking hard, that's why literally every astronauts are hotties by default, because you have to build a olympian body to just withstand the bullshit of space. Imagine if every rich fuckboy who lands on idk the Maldives or something have to do jumping jacks and pushups for 3 hour a day for every day they are staying or else they bone turns into jelly, I very much doubt the place would receive many visitors. Which brings us to the hilarious irony when you consider that the demographic screaming about Mars colonization are :so-true: who lets be honest here, are not only physically unfit but also held the idea of physical activity in disdain, whether it be denigrating "unskilled" laborers or "sportsball" activities.

And as have been mentioned, capitalist's usual method to increase profitability would just lead to instant death in space. Of course it also leads to deaths everytime on earth to, but not as instantaneous as the SpaceX Reddit Hotel imploding. They can at least salvage the Bhopal chemical plant while in the latter porkies have to deal with the possibility of the debris falling into the western world and damaging their capital.