SpaceX Shows the Way Forward: Let Private Industry Take the Lead in Space

Redefining the Final Frontier: The Case for Privatization in Space Exploration

Until now, every person to orbit Earth has flown on a spacecraft designed and launched by a government agency. Even at the start of 2020, fifty-nine years after Yuri Gagarin became the first person to orbit Earth, only three organizations had ever launched a human being into orbit: the Russian state space agency, Roscosmos; America’s NASA; and China’s C…