Absolutely, Elon has the balls to put money on the table and push for audacious goals like the sort of fully reusable, high cadence, rocket technology that was

Absolutely, Elon has the balls to put money on the table and push for audacious goals like the sort of fully reusable, high cadence, rocket technology that was all but abandoned as all but a science fiction dream as the aerospace industry slowly transformed through the 70s slowly into the 80s. Yes there were hold outs trying to make it happen still, keeping the dreams alive, but it clearly wasn’t going anywhere. We had a couple of good attempts in the 90s with the desire to build a shuttle replacement putting some money on the table but it was never going to be feasible for a federally funded program to build a fully reusable rocket, being fully reusable might lead to people loosing jobs and pork barrel politics will “fix” that very quickly! It took crazy Elon and his wild dreams of Mars colony building to put enough private capital behind building a really reusable rocket. But it’s absolutely Gwynn’s Shotwell who has made his vision possible she’s a damn global treasure and if we ever have a space colony because of Elon’s vision, she deserves a statue on the surface of another planet for making that vision happen!