When Longshot Space’s CEO Mike Grace pops onto the screen for a Zoom call with SpaceWatch, he’s at an airport, buzzing with energy like the passengers scurrying around him. “Just got back from Kyiv,” he launches in, without pleasantries. “I wanted to plop down $4000 at a hardware store, make a prototype of a rocket in 3 days, get some commercial orders in, and leave a factory behind me.”