Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently took to the pages of the Guardian to launch a full-throated attack on Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and the whole concept of the commercial space sector.

Sanders began by celebrating the Apollo 11 moon landing: “On that historic day, the entire world came together to celebrate the enormous accomplishment as Armstrong’s voice boomed from our television sets: ‘That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.’”