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George Sowers (who designed ACES and was fired by ULA for it) is teaching a course about developing space colonies at the Colorado School of Mines. Basically the idea is to source the initial materials from Earth, and then transition into in-space manufacturing. Water ice is vital for this plan. But revenue is critical, they need some 'super app' that will be the bread and butter for the space economy, maybe that's space solar power or something else.