The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

If it is human destiny to one day expand to other worlds, and eventually other stars, we're going to need to do so with more than a few government astronauts making short sorties. To open space there must be lower cost access and commercial potential.

Weird, usually bald statements like this come with some sort of argument after them. Because otherwise we just infer "all motivation is profit" which tells me human destiny is just our current existence but bigger and worse, with the addition of more frequent and exotic cancers.