BTW Elon Musk space program was not first commercial program. Before him exists at least one program with sounding rockets and one with mega-cannon.
Unfortunately, Western governments for understandable reasons fear to accept 3rd world countries to develop such programs, because of non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons. So, when programs eventually moved to 3rd world countries (due to lack of interest in developed countries), Western governments used brute force to cancel them.
Unfortunately, Western governments for understandable reasons fear to accept 3rd world countries to develop such programs, because of non-proliferation of mass destruction weapons. So, when programs eventually moved to 3rd world countries (due to lack of interest in developed countries), Western governments used brute force to cancel them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull