Cape Canaveral in its "boom cycle" of launches

Call it a new Apollo moment: Rocket launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, are now outpacing those of the Cold War-era space race that first made the launch site famous.Why it matters: U.S. leaders are rushing to grow the number of rocket providers at America's busiest spaceport amid a space and arms race with China.Beijing plans to send a crew to the Moon by 2030 or sooner and is rapidly building up its satellite and rocket fleets.What they're saying: "There's nothing really comparable in the background of my career to what we're experiencing today," Space Force Col. Brian Chatman, the comman