They didn’t even try to save anything.

Here, folks lament how this or that LV is a “boondoggle” or “hobby rocket.”

But at least things get *built*

China, like SpaceX, at least try to find ways to support aerospace…different economic systems—but you have at least some level of commitment.

An aerospace library disposed of?
No wonder Europe is behind.

Have the Greens done THAT much damage?

I can’t comprehend that….

Your thesis causes me to recall erstwhile British Prime Minister Disraeli’s distinction between misfortune and calamity – the former exemplified by his main opponent Gladstone falling into the Thames and the latter exemplified by someone pulling him out. It would be a misfortune if Relativity were to go under, but it would be an outright calamity if MSFC was ever tasked with designing another rocket.

And if something is ‘confidential’, why are you talking about it, Anonymous Sources?

Then add the rocket production on the side.