
Washington has spent billions pushing for alternatives to SpaceX, but they’ve failed to deliver
Forget his wealth, said Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker. It’s the sheer power Elon Musk wields today that should shock us. The billionaire’s rocket company, SpaceX, is currently the sole means by which Nasa can get astronauts into space from US soil. Another of his ventures, Tesla, controls the nation’s biggest network of electric-vehicle charging stations.