Elon Musk’s SpaceX began a new ‘Space Race’
In 2005, three years before its first successful orbital launch, a fledgling space startup called SpaceX petitioned the US government to let it use the storied Cape Canaveral launchpad once home to the Apollo space program. Old-school space companies like Boeing and Lockheed Martin bristled at the idea and lobbied aggressively to block the deal….