Secret Ingredient to a New Era of Space Exploration: Cheaper Launches
4 min readJul 16, 2019
After Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon 50 years ago this week, it’s hard not to conclude that he got it backward: It wasn’t “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
In fact, it was one giant leap for man, as Armstrong’s life was forever changed by celebrity; and one small step for mankind, society is largely the same today as it was 50 years ago.
