Whether economic or otherwise, sovereignty comes at a price, usually very high. The success of the manned space flight carried out by SpaceX at the end of last week is a good illustration of this. For fifteen years, NASA has signed contracts for over ten billion dollars with the start-up of Elon Musk, which has now become a key player in space. Everyone has found their account. The entrepreneur - brilliant, in the words of Donald Trump - was able to build an innovative society and America, which will be able to do without Russian launchers, regains space sovereignty, the credibility to set out to conquer the Moon and the ability to make people dream, a precious ingredient in a disoriented world.
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Europe, which has all the space technologies and a leading launcher with Ariane, could also bet on manned flights and projects to the Moon. Only lack this will and especially this pride that only a nation can have ...
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