Trump clears the way for a commercial space revolution

Recently, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Enabling Competition in the Commercial Space Industry.” Its text suggests that the real title should be “Making commercial space great again.”

Ars Technica has a good rundown about what the executive order is intended to do. It is intended to accomplish three things.

First, it instructs Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who happens to also be the interim NASA administrator, to streamline or even eliminate environmental...