Today’s theme is space cowboys. Last night, SpaceX succesfully launched its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The era of spaceflight as a private enterprise has begun.
Soon, we’ll be able to go up there ourselves.
Space Fellowship posted an emotional recap of the launch with a great video.
The Los Angeles Times has the straight story of the Falcon 9 launch and the obstacles it faced.
The Instagram blog posted some cool mobile shots of the momentous event.
Matt Novak argues that it’s time to let go of our nostalgia for the space program of old.
Why do we go to space? To see our world like this…
… and to answer these top 10 questions about our universe.
Lead image by Instagram user @simonesyed.
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