Just out of curiosity

[den]

What was stopping private companies from developing re-usable orbital vehicles before the X-Prize came along? Why are we seeing this now after 50 years of humans in space?

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[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

It's all about competition. The space program never would have gotten anywhere in the first place if we didn't want to beat the Russians. Now, finally, someone had the idea to create a new space race by pitting corporations against one another.