WOW so it has been an exceptionally long time since I've posted and believe me I am more than ashamed about it. I see all of these other phenomenal pieces of writing from my peers and can't help but feel a little inadequate.
Seeing as I'm here talking and typing already - how bloody cool is it about the first privately owned space rocket taking off today. Personally, I was devastated when NASA sent their last Shuttle into the atmosphere, so the launch of the Dragon space capsule atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral was really exciting to me, and there was one thing that absolutely blew my mind about it.
Absolutely no humans are aboard the Dragon.
How is that.. just.. I don't even understand. Something so incredibly delicate and expensive has been engineered so well that it doesn't even need a person to guide it along. I don't know if that's as cool to you as it is to me, but a space capsule on autopilot knocks my socks off.
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