News Summary

• The only truly unique thing associated with Musk is Starship.
• That piece of tech is important for our species and everyone else is a solid 20 years behind.
• From conception to first launch may only be a few years, but from there to actually being reliable, cheap, and rapidly reusable takes many, many years.
• There IS work on Starship clones/competitors - Long March 9, Cosmoleap, Xingzhou-1, Astronstone, Project Jarvis, Nova - but they're varying degrees of long timelines.