"Try to Keep Up" ...hahaahahaah... (love it)
You attempt to relate EVERY spinoff with a single space program, something as drab and useless as orbiting inflatable space stations around the moon. Every "justification" for the program to do this offered in the above article is qualitative, "because we should"..."can't let another 45 years go by"...or..."so we can be first, a coup".
Boring. We've been there and done that. Few cared after the first.
The interested billionaires are busy stockpiling unfathomable riches at the expense of the American public, the taxpayer. If Bezos wants to do this, let him fund the entire thing himself.
What these B-guy$ do is to influence the political process to have the taxpayer pay for it all, then they get and exploit the spinoffs themselves, and stockpile ever more increasing piles of riches that would fund whole countries and continents for useful projects which help people and also develop technology.
I love space, but we should love people here more.