Yesterday two things happened in America on the same day that the world will understand better in a few years. In Texas, Starship reached orbit for the second time and released 26 Starlink V3 satellites. SpaceX says that one batch adds about a terabit of capacity, as much as ten Falcon 9 Starlink launches. Tonight the ship is set to come home and fly into the arms of the tower, something no orbital spacecraft has ever done. A few hours later Tesla started inviting customers to buy a Cybercab for personal use. $29,990, two seats, no steering wheel and no pedals, with first deliveries planned for December in Austin. A car you can own that has no place for a driver at all. Both come from the same way of thinking from Elon Musk. Make the expensive thing reusable, make the hard thing automatic, and keep going until it is cheap enough for everyone. Now look at Europe on the same day. Europe still has no orbital booster that lands and flies again. No company in Europe sells a car without a steering wheel. The big headlines from Brussels are about regulation and fines, like the €120 million fine on X last December. Europe has brilliant engineers and some of the best universities in the world. What it keeps losing is the freedom to try, fail in public and try again. Starship exploded more than once on the way to this orbit, and every one of those flights became data for the next one. Tonight, if the ship lands, the future gets closer for everyone, including those of us watching from Europe.