Elon Musk effect: How a social media tussle is messing up space exploration

Elon Musk has been a force for good in space over the last couple of decades. SpaceX, which he founded in 2002 with the lofty aim of making humans a multiplanetary species, is well on its way - one could say at the midpoint - to achieving that dream. Through innovations like reusable rockets, it has already reduced the cost of access to space to a fraction of what it was, and has unleashed a private capital led explosion of space businesses. So