Quote Originally Posted by spmetla View Post
https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/chin...heavy-success/
China Has Mixed Feelings About Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy Success


Interesting to see some of their perspective on it. I just hope the private enterprise space industry picks up speed. Also seen some folks on the facebook talking about how this shows the government should stay out of space travel, to that I keep having to point out that the infrastructure of the Kennedy Space Center allowed him to launch when his facility at Vandenberg had delays. Also helps to have existing facilities and standards and procedures to conform to instead of having to start from scratch.
The government seems to have enabled Musk to afford this passion project.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...531-story.html