Editorial: Why the Falcon Heavy matters (and what it means to us)

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<div>Here's why: This rocket is privately-built, specifically by tech entrepreneur <b>Elon</b> <b>Musk's</b> SpaceX Corp. We have grown up in an era in which space flight was the sole province of governments. Private contractors may have built the rockets, but the government — the taxpayers — paid for them. That era is ...</div>