Secret Ingredient to a New Era of Space Exploration: Cheaper Launches

After Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon 50 years ago this week, it’s hard not to conclude that he got it backwards: It wasn’t “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

In fact, it was one giant leap for man, as Armstrong’s life was forever changed by celebrity. But as for one giant leap for mankind, society is largely the same today as…