Elon Musk is, apparently, an insufferable prick. But his company developed a new and partially-reusable booster. SpaceX did it for about 60%, give or take, of what Boeing is being paid. Not to mention Boeing is basically flying a booster that was first developed over sixty years ago and, in its current configuration, uses Russian rocket engines (and the cheapest software engineers available).
Right now, if you're going to space, a good motto would be "if it's Boeing, I ain't going".
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Got a little choked up watching that.
It was good to see some good news.
I was into 10mm Auto before it sold out and went mainstream, but these days I'm here for the revolver and epidemiology information.
That puts you slightly younger than my dad (not meant as a shot). He was about 10 when Freedom 7 launched - it's going to be cool once we can get face to face for him to compare notes with the kids re that launch and this one. Some details have changed, but the entire family around the TV watching history unfold today seems to bear a lot of similarities to his descriptions of being glued to TV and radio during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.