#Heinlein was a great writer in many aspects but his ideology seeps in from every part of his work as well as many other authors

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The great irony with so many libertarians in science-fiction and space interest communities is how life in space, fundamentally, promotes cooperation and a strong state. You need strong state investments and research to build the infrastructure necessary for space exploration (where do you think SpaceX's money comes from?), and big organized societies with perspectives for the future rather than short term profit to maintain them, much like any big scale technological project or research (which is why anarchism of any kind couldn't sustain large-scale scientific research)

Once you get and live in space, you have to survive in the most hostile enviroment to human life. To do this, not only you need to rely on others and all the people supporting you back on Earth, but also you need to manage your resources to support each other; you can't hoard air or water, you can't go 'OUT OF MY PROPERTYYYYY' when the whole habitat you live in needs to be managed for the good of all. you can't disobey regulations or turn back on your community when they are the ones literally keeping you alive. If anything, space communities are places for strong states rather than rugged individualism.

also, you know. Sputnik. Laika. Gagarin. Tereshkova. I could go on.