After a months-long series of delays, commercial space-flight startup Space Exploration Technlogy finally managed on Friday to achieve a milestone: screwing up a space-craft launch for a fraction of what NASA charges.
It’s a fact—new rocket fails on its maiden launch.
Frankly, I do hope SpaceX has more success in the near future. I have always been fascinated by space—my youth spent idolizing men like Neil Armstrong, James Tiberius Kirk, Ralph Kramden—but I’m afraid space flight continues to be a bit out of my budget.
Site news: our Graphic Designer, with some help from our Technical Advisor (who is still recovering from our recent headaches), is installing the a new site design as I type this. So by the time you read this, the site itself should be transformed utterly. We are very excited about this. Or at least we’d better be; it’s costing me a lot of money that I won’t be spending on a space shuttle vacation.
