In article . net,
"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote:

What is significant about a private corporation duplicating a feat
that a government agency accomplished decades earlier?

....for a tiny fraction of the cost, and having the ability to repeat the
feat in less than two weeks (which the government program didn't manage).

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