Pants usually have two pockets at least:

One we will call “public” and the other we will call “private.”

If you want a ride to space, it really doesn’t matter which pocket it comes from.

Blue Origin is just as private as SpaceX
Russia is just as public as China.

Like Blue, Russia just has ‘holes in its pockets.

And India just made a capsule out of pocket lint.

You can always train “know-how.”

It is “want-to” that is lacking.

Patrick Underwood: Yes, it is bad. When bad people anywhere stymie human achievement, we all will suffer bad consequences in the end. Wouldn’t be better if Russia was a healthy prosperous nation competing for business on the open market, rather than a nation run by mobsters who think it okay to start wars for political gain? Those same mobsters squelch all competition inside Russia, and thus squelch the ability of ordinary Russians to follow ambitious but laudable dreams.

You say that like it’s a bad thing!