Both companies created in the previous century and running on old fuel of past success

Yea that's why the only three orbital grade reusable boosters are American. Lmao.

But our bridges and infrastructure are crumbling

	▲	xp84 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s not for lack of engineering talent! We just don’t like paying for boring things like… bridges that haven’t collapsed yet. “Call us when it does crumble. We’ve got a border wall to build or gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners to pay for.”
	▲	esseph an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Those are issues of priority and revenue generation, not capability.