Read it...and cautiously ask: Is USA winning? Do we have a comfortable enough lead? Or are we still playing catch up from years of wasted time...is NASA going to re-blossom or is it just SpaceX/private companies now?
Article is misleading, the military is still sending rockets, and it was sending rockets way before spunik.
Nasa is backwards. No other nation has a civilian rocket program. It syphons our military and it syphons private industry competitiveness.