Only in America things like this can happen. A whole industry bootstrapping itself into transforming exotic, mission critical hardware into a commodity; SpaceX

Only in America things like this can happen. A whole industry bootstrapping itself into transforming exotic, mission critical hardware into a commodity; SpaceX is making flight hardware a commodity, just like Silicon Valley did with semiconductors! Meanwhile Europeans are playing catch-up with the Falcon 9 (already 11 years old) and it looks like Ariane 6 won't be competitive with SpaceX anyways [0]. And China is still raining toxic fuel and spent rocket stages on villages. [1] [0] https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/europes-challenger-to-the-falcon-9-rocket-runs-into-more-delays/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/europes-challenger-t... [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping-toxic-rocket-parts-on-its-villages/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/china-keeps-dropping...