Why Musk is so important

Elon Musk's giant rocket went out of control, tumbled, and broke apart several minutes into a test flight Tuesday night .

Musk is crucial to America ’s space ambitions because, for a long time, America seemed not to have any space ambitions at all.

He is reviving a spirit of exploration, and he is actually doing things on a big scale.

It was just relative time allocation that probably was a little too high on the government side, and I’ve reduced that significantly in recent weeks .” That’s not a surprise, given Musk ’s experience. But if it means Musk will spend more time on space, that’s good for everyone. Americans owe him a debt of gratitude for almost single-handedly restoring a sense of ambition and purpose to a great field of U.S. achievement..