> He (his companies/teams) have also utterly changed the space launch landscape to the point of making the rest of the world irrelevant
For now. Other countries are catching up, same as they are with electric vehicles.
For now. Other countries are catching up, same as they are with electric vehicles.
Are they? Rocket Lab is near me, I know a lot of people working there. They haven't flown Neutron rocket yet. Meanwhile SpaceX is already planning to sunset Falcon 9 which is same scale as Neutron. I don't see them being very competitive with Starship, despite being so much cheaper.
That is always true, in every industry.