More than a decade later, ArianeSpace is still trying to shake off Richard Bowles' deeply condescending comments about how SpaceX was "selling a dream" and wasting his time "talking about unrealistic goals". Now who's selling the dream? Ariane keeps saying Europe's launch cadence doesn't support reusability, but at the same time there's not enough launch capability for even Galileo or ESA flagship missions, so they're turning to SpaceX.
Ariane 6 is an example of Europe. Expensive, late, bureaucratic , not innovative, built to generate jobs and to give illusion Europe is just behind competition.
If we didn't waste so much money on the ISS, we could be planning for and launching the next generation of bigger and better space telescopes and solar system probes.
