in which we've lost the lead, however tenuous our lead in rocket technology may have been. The head of NASA says that the European space rocket, Ariane5, is 'probably the best in the world'. The company that makes it, Arianespace, has more than 50% of the commercial satellite launching market.
We don't have to be #1 in everything - we can't be - but we should not act as though we were.
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