In case you missed it: “Early on Saturday morning, at 1:45 am local time, a Falcon 9 rocket soared into orbit from its launch site at Kennedy Space Center in Florida… after a rare failure earlier this month, this particular Falcon 9 rocket was making a return-to-flight for the company and attempting to get the world’s most active booster back into service.” They had a fifteen day turnaround time in figuring out what was wrong, fixing it, and getting back to a launch schedule. That’s, yeah, pretty fast for non-wartime aerospace*.
Via Instapundit.
Moe Lane
*The most interesting thing about Elon Musk is that he absolutely comes across as a huckster / confidence man, spinning moonbeams and fancies. And then there’s this:
(Nature)
What do you call a confidence man who actually delivers the goods?
A common American myth.