I sit on a train, riding to work in Melbourne, watching the live broadcast on my mobile phone of the successful launch of Space X's Falcon Heavy.
I saw the successful twin landing of the outside boosters, I saw the video black out as the core booster started it's landing (there still is no news on what has happened to it)
I have seen live streaming video from the test payload as the faring was ejected and it settled into orbit waiting to start it's journey to Mars.
Not to land on Mars, it's not clean enough. But out to the orbit of Mars, and maybe a flyby within a few hundred thousand km of the red planet.
Space X is proving that commercial space flight is going to happen, much cheaper than government programs and with reusable components.
I saw the successful twin landing of the outside boosters, I saw the video black out as the core booster started it's landing (there still is no news on what has happened to it)
I have seen live streaming video from the test payload as the faring was ejected and it settled into orbit waiting to start it's journey to Mars.
Not to land on Mars, it's not clean enough. But out to the orbit of Mars, and maybe a flyby within a few hundred thousand km of the red planet.
Space X is proving that commercial space flight is going to happen, much cheaper than government programs and with reusable components.
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