Just finished watching the successful launch of of the Falcon 9 carrying the ZUMA space mission. The payload is a highly secret military satellite built by Northrop Grumman.
This is the first launch this year from SpaceX and looks to have been a perfect launch and return of the first stage booster. We have become pretty blasé about the return and landing of first stage boosters, I am always amazed at the the accuracy of the landings. To land a booster on a raft at sea or in the middle of a target marked out on a landing pad always amazes me.
What gives me great hope for the future of space flight is the young age of the scientists and engineers at SpaceX. I take my hat off to them all.
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The next milestone is going to be the launch of the Falcon Heavy, scheduled for launch at the end of January. This is is what I had hoped for after the first moon landings, it has been a long time coming but finally it seems that private enterprise is going to set us a course to the moon, Mars and beyond.