Just watched the launch and re-entry from satellite beach. I followed the entire booster landing, from separation to touchdown with binoculars. incredible.

Pretty cool for sure. So amazing they can stick the landing. 8th time on land!

And it was a recycled booster, previously launched and landed.

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A lot of people think that all of this is No-Big-Deal, and that we should be spending the money elsewhere.

My only response can be: "Jane, you poor, ignorant, slut!"

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Puerto Rico 11 - 24 - 2013

That is an amazing feat! I have been in the biz since 1985 and it is incredible what has been developed, tested, flown, landed......it is more like Buck Rodgers than ever before. I am so thrilled to see SpaceX, Blue Origin, and of course the old work horses, Delta and Atlas doing well. Brevard is coming back.

This was also for the first launch from complex 40 since SpaceX blew up on the pad and ruined it.

I went to the cape with the kids and what a surge of pride I got. It's an amazing place. It's the best of our country and the spirit of achievement. What spacex is doing is exciting. Same with Boeing. Out of the ashes of the space shuttle comes a new optimism that feels very familiar.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.