Jack of Harts

A SpaceX booster just lifted off from its cradle to launch a starship into orbit before flying back to land in the cradle it departed 7 minutes previously. “Single Stage to Infinity” is the dream according to Arlan Andrews, and this isn’t there yet, but it most certainly did “take off and land vertically, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended.” Also Arlan Andrews. This is so far up the technological ladder compared to where we were even ten years ago that it isn’t even funny. This was science fiction twenty years ago. This is the future now. This is the Moon. This is Mars. This is us becoming an interplanetary civilization in my lifetime. This is our species escaping the single billiard ball of doom. This is huge.