During the day job, I watched this train engine pull some incredible maneuvers. The engineer and his mate ran through a process of uncoupling and coupling of train cars, removing an empty one from storage and dropping off a full load of supplies. The amazing things people do every day to make the world run right is a joy to see.
Congrats to SpaceX on their mostly successful flight of the Falcon Heavy. The loss of the center core is a bummer but the rest of the flight was flawless.
We are entering a new era of space flight. The era of reusability. We will look back on this moment and wonder why we didn’t do this earlier.
SpaceX put another bird in the air this week. Now the slate is clean for the Falcon Heavy to make its debut on the pad February 6. I am hopeful that the flight is a total success but I am also not going to get my hopes up. Multicore rockets are very hard and this one will most likely have a partial failure. If things go right, great. If they go wrong, SpaceX will learn from it and get back to flying. That, in my book, is the only way to go.
