SpaceX Endeavour back safely…

NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken  splashed down  in the Gulf of Mexico in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Sunday,  ending a historic two-month trip to space.   This is the first time astronauts have launched from American soil since the final Space Shuttle flight in 2011.   Remember that His Oneness shut the space program down.

Congratulations,  gentlemen!

 

 

 

If you missed…

…the SpaceX rocket launch with a retired Marine and Airman aboard,  you can  watch it here.  Enjoy — we’re back in space!

SpaceX soars…

Yesterday a private company went to space for  the very  first time.   After a weather delay,  SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and its Crew Dragon capsule launched the Commercial Crew Program into space.   Elon Musk has a big mouth and is quick to use taxpayer funding to enrich himself,  but isn’t everybody?  He is a creative and tough man,  as California has recently discovered,  but he has delivered an enormous blow to Boeing,  which is already suffering from recent failures.

Boca Chica revolt…

The 26 people who reside in Boca Chica Village saw their community make the news when the South Texas town  was chosen  last year as the world’s first commercial rocket-launch site.   Now they wish Elon Musk’s SpaceX company would go away and let them return to obscurity,  since their lives will be considerably restricted by the safety rules the company has announced.

How would you like being ordered to register with the county,  and even being forced to evacuate your home on certain launch days?   I’d be furious,  and might well join the residents in either civil disobedience or a lawsuit,  which the citizens of a community which translates from the Spanish as “small mouth”,  are considering.

 

 

Maybe next time…

SpaceX successfully launched its rocket yesterday,  and Dragon is on its way to the Space Station.   The booster rocket  actually landed  on the drone ship in the ocean,  but  too hard  to survive impact.