An informative and very interesting article from Popular Mechanics breaks down how the recent American innovations in spaceflight have their European counterparts alarmed and annoyed.
How bad is it for the Euros, potentially?
Breaking news about the U.S. space industry comes fast and furious in 2018: A private customer paying for a trip around the moon, new launch providers snagging the rights to launch military missions, international sales of flights on U.S. rockets, new rockets and spaceports announced—even a potential sixth branch of the military dedicated to space.
First America. Then the world. Then the stars.