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in reply to The most important near-term goal of a space program:

Near-term, I'm caught between power-generation, asteroid mining and space manufacturing. The bottom of a gravity-well is no place for an industrial society!
A longer-term goal is to produce a new frontier, a place where people who are dissatisfied with their current lot in life can go to start a new one.