I’m glad that I was not the only person to tear up at this launch. I was walking my 4 year old to school this morning while he was talking about the moon and I realized the launch gave me hope for his future.

Not oddly enough, I kinda felt like this:

space is fuckin awesome, man.

I totally know what you mean. Like you, my wife and I also didn’t really become fascinated with space until after college. But now we can’t get enough. We work together so we were lucky enough to see it (online) together. All day long my wife kept saying “this just makes me so happy!” It’s just so cool. And the fact…

I was a crying mess when I first visited Kennedy Space Center a few years ago. I was overwhelmed and awed. And yesterday, I drove 6 hours to watch the launch, and was amazed again at human ingenuity. Felt the sonic booms in person. Great experience.

I felt the same way. I was born in 78 and was a huge follower of the shuttle program. I remember when I was a boy, my dad would wake me up really early to watch every single Shuttle launch on tv. I had a massive poster above my bed of the first Columbia launch for about 10 years.

Imagine what it was like when we spent actual humans to the moon with actual cars for them to drive.. must have been amazing

Amen. I’m right there with you. It’s an amazing spirit of adventure, innovation, and can-do-it applied science and hard work. It’s hard to put into words what Elon Musk is actually doing.

I followed it online as i normally do, but this one was also special because this was the first Space X launch my dad had followed live. He grew up watching the early NASA missions and it was amazing to him not only to see the liftoff, but the cameras covering the separation and of course the double landings. The…

People stopped caring for awhile for some unknown reason. I attribute the renewed interest to two things: 1. It’s exciting to have competition and 2. Some of this is privately funded which is great

My friends are growing weary of my excitement over this launch.

And my comment of “it’s 2018, and we finally have flying cars!” was met with “if it’s not in the atmosphere, it’s not flying.”

Well said. I’m having another goosebump moment here myself. Maybe my kids will get to feel a bit of the excitement I felt during Apollo.

I was watching at work with headphones on. I had tears in my eyes and said ‘oh my God!’ about 10 times. A coworker thought something was dreadfully wrong and checked in on me.

I was the same way yesterday. I was genuinely shaking with sheer awe at what was just accomplished. The science and engineering behind what SpaceX has been doing is unreal.

Hug?

Superchargers have a shitty whine that reminds me of a failing transmission. Turbochargers sound like a jet engine under the hood.

he pleads not ghillie.

You don’t seem to understand ‘investing’ or ‘opportunity cost’

billions of license plates across the U.S.

Sometimes I almost feel sorry for other fanbases, but then I remember that everyone else’s fans suck too.