Global Slugfest: How 2025’s Home-Run Kings Became the World’s Accidental Arms Dealers
TOKYO—While the planet’s 195-odd nations bicker over whose navy gets to play chicken in whose fishing lagoon, a quieter arms race unfolded this spring in ballparks from Queens to Caracas: the race to see which human launch vehicle could hurl the most horsehide into low-Earth orbit before the 2025 season’s cease-fire in October. The early…