Anthony Furey: Canada Adds Bureaucracy to the Commercial Space Race

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Oct. 5, 2022. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images

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We wanted flying cars and colonies on Mars but instead we got 140 characters. That line, and different variations of it, is commonly used to express frustration at how scientific progress has in some ways stalled in the past few decades.