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Macron says Europe must become 'space power' again

by Teever on 6/21/25, 2:31 AM with 1 comments

• by bell-cot on 6/21/25, 3:54 AM

  Macron can BS all he wants about "space", "strategy", "partnerships", and how France being the home of the baguette somehow makes France a natural at rocketry.

  The Unobtainium that matters is having a SpaceX-ish organization, actually able to design/build/operate/scale the necessary launch hardware.

  (To be fair to Macron - I can't recall that any politician, ever, has faced up to that fact.)