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COMMERCIAL SPACE SAMPLER: Forbes has an article out which touts the various possibilities and benefits of space commercialization. It’s really just a review of what should and could be done with privatization of launch and on-orbit services and infrastructure, nothing space advocates aren’t already familiar with, but it’s a great, brief summation of these ideas that one could use to “sell” them to the uninitiated.

It’s also worth noting that the author of the article, Edward Hudgins, is the Washington Director for The Objectivist Center, the more open and, er, “progressive” (so to speak) of the two primary Ayn Rand/Objectivism schools. He is the author of the forthcoming book Space, the Free-Market Frontier (available in June), which considering the company he keeps should be quite interesting.