I am so happy to know that Big Government Believers can try to suck the little people into their happy world not just with Wonders of FuckYou Healthcare, and not just with We'll Keep You Safe Our Way, but also with We'll Take Our Chosen Ones To The Stars (sort of).
I am not a big government believer, but I *am* a believer in the wise use of resources. As long as they keep stealing our money, I think investments in areas that have historically given us tech that improves our lives is appropriate. Ideally this is done with tariffs and corporate tax.
However, at this time (speaking about the US government here, but others are similar) about the only goal is to keep the lid on the boiling pot while they spend 1.5% times what they take in and print to make up the difference.
Any idea that some good could come out of some of the programs offered to keep the little guy from complaining under those constraints is likely false.
This is a big concept to grasp, the easiest way is to think of proponents of government space basically being proponents of the old 'government - space complex', which is and was a huge system.
By comparison consider private space launches. Guys are doing a launch with a half dozen notebooks for launch control systems. We don't need the government space, what we need is for them to get out of the way and stop the bottlenecks and both outright and under the table restrictions to private space.
Since the 1950s, the governments and their major contractors have engineered the bankrupcy of hundreds of small private space startups.
I saw him on The Daily Show. 
