Loving this
Real progress - and at what a pace!
As a kid I'd always assumed that the manned exploration of space was inevitable. Constant incremental improvements in technology enabling us to travel further and further out into the solar system because we could, and because the momentum was there.
Then as an adult, the sucker punch as I realised that no such thing was likely to happen in my lifetime.
Putting robots on Mars has been seven flavours of awesome, but without any political drive to put people further out into space it always seemed likely that the manned side of space exploration was effectively over. Forever.
And then SpaceX appeared on the scene - Game on!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
