Every other Space Agency in the world knows that SpaceX has won with reusable rockets. All of the existing non-reusable rockets cannot compete. The Japanese, Chinese, Europeans and Russians know that SpaceX is going to take all of the commercial space launch. SpaceX already has over 50% of the commercial space launch. The US just needs to kill Space Launch System (SLS) and put the $4B per year into incentivizing more flights of SpaceX rockets. The US could redirect the SLS money to just purchase SpaceX BFR flights and put up 1000s of people into space, build 1 GW of space-based solar power and establish lunar bases and space mining. This would give the US a lead in space that could be sustained until 2100.

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