NASA to misfortune and beyond, by Elisabeth Filhol-Liberation

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Five years ago, as much to say an eternity in the universe of tech, The Crew Dragon Capsule of SpaceX carried its first crew to the ISS. The commentators applauded, they judged that the moment was historic and it was doubly. After the abandonment of shuttles and several years of dependence on Russian Soyuz, NASA found an autonomy of access to the ISS. Above all, this success of SpaceX, the second after the development of a reusable launcher, endowed a revolution in the space industry: the arrival of private actors capable of playing equal game with major government agencies. This paradigm shift which calls into question the monopoly that states had on inhabited flights, which brings capitalist logic into the last industrial bastion which still resisted it, this upheaval wanted and carried by the Americans has a name: New Space.

Embodied by some media figures of billionaire entrepreneurs, New Space is first of all an economic model, an ecosystem of private companies