For any of you space nerds. (You know who you are!)

Nice flight, but hard to get excited about a 10 minute flight (for $200,000!!!) when the Falcon 9 gets payloads to orbit. New Glenn now, *that* will be a heck of a booster if he can get it to fly.
 
It was pretty cool to watch the launch and the landing of the booster and capsule. The technology for landing the boosters so they are reusable is totally cool. I believe SpaceX was first to do it but is a huge money saver in the long run. I am ready to see a manned mission back to the Moon as well as to Mars one day.
 
I just watched the launch of the most recent Starlink mission. It was pretty impressive, even though I'm about 75 miles away. It looked like a big red roman candle as it rose.

Nice. I want to get down there for a launch one day. I saw one of the Apollo missions when I was a kid from my grandparents house in Orlando. As the first stage cleared the tower we looked east out the big picture window and saw the fireball moving into the sky. Impressed the heck out of me and I didn't really understand what I was seeing. (somewhere between 6-8 years old)
 
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