When Airbus started, it was because no single company could afford the

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development costs of an airliner. Same with the Tornado, no single country could afford to develop a multi-role combat aircraft. NASDA stopped building rockets and going to the moon because the USA couldn't afford to support the outrageous costs of a space programme.

Now some fella who's made a few quid off the internet can afford to do what the USA can't?

Nonsense on stilts. He's a Bond villain and he lives in a volcano, mark my words.

And Elon Musk? It's an anagram of Hugo Drax, and his rocket is codenamed 'Moonraker'.