I think we should have more private access to space, and a total divestment from NASA of our strategic/military interests in space. That should instead be a completely organic capability of the military, either back to the USAF as it was in the very early days, or possibly even the eventual creation of an entire new branch of the Armed Forces -- the US Space Force? Many science-fiction universes refer to space-based armed forces as navies, and I think it's a sound analogy when you consider the similarities: projecting power over vast distances, across featureless voids, the need to carry with you everything you might need, etc. The Navy is probably a better template for an eventual spaceborne service than is the Air Force.
I find it illustrative to watch the film 2001. Made in 1968, it captures a lot of that era's assumptions about the future of humanity in space, and one of the more interesting portrayals is that of private business in space. Dr. Floyd traveled from a station floating in Earth orbit -- which had its own Howard Johnson's hotel -- to the moon via a PanAm spaceliner, using navigational and telemetry systems made by IBM. It was an extrapolation of the airline industry, projected into space travel. And I think its vision of the then-future is not that farfetched at all, and we would probably be a lot closer to it by now if space exploration had not remained a virtual monopoly under NASA's purview for the intervening four decades.