That’s a good one and that should be a case study: https://www.forbes.com/2003/02/03/cx_ah_0203space.html https://www.forbes.com/2003/02/03/cx_ah_0203space.html

That’s a good one and that should be a case study: https://www.forbes.com/2003/02/03/cx_ah_0203space.html https://www.forbes.com/2003/02/03/cx_ah_0203space.html Privatization was well under way, but the incumbents were (and still are) awful. NASA later took a risk with SpaceX, fostered competition, and it paid off enormously. But this worked out because there was a market and demand (private sector satellites).