Who Controls the Future of Space Exploration?

Space may be the final frontier, but who's in charge of it? Should exploration and colonization be a matter for governments, or for private industry? It was a major topic of discussion and sometimes heated disagreement at a pair of conferences here in San Diego. KPBS Science and Technology reporter David Wagner has the story.

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NASA's "paltry" budget is more than any other space agency in the world. The problem is *not* the budget. In every endeavor, markets work better than government programs *and* cost less.