Serious tonnage is the constraint. A handful of people flying out and returning is tourism. A self-growing civilization requires continuous mass flow: habitats, propellant, factories, closed-loop systems. That only happens when launch cadence and payload scale like industrial logistics, not exploration. Louisiana’s existing energy and industrial base is the substrate now being reused for that throughput. The jobs follow the physics. Rockets remain the most compelling work available because they close the mass gap between one planet and many.