SpaceX is Jennifer Lawrence to space zoomies.

Just so you know, I’m not even going to click the link. :) Because if you plan to vote for one of the righty loons, anything you have to say is totally and completely irrelevant, ridiculous and unimportant to me.

Funny, but if this had been a NASA failure, and there’d been footage of a rocket exploding in the same way, Republicans would be calling to shut the agency down immediately, but because it’s SpaceX people are all, “Good try, guys! Almost! Hang in there!!!”

It’s interesting to me how so many commenters were quick to call the Rosetta mission an immediate failure and are so quick to criticize whenever NASA doesn’t hit an absolute 100% home run on something, but SpaceX just keeps getting pass after pass after pass for coming close...

Yeah...no. Some of us still like this place and want our kids to have a good country to call home.

Ford Pinto is a acceptable answer. +1 Internet point

About the same as the Curiosity Mars landing?? Yeah, sorry, not even close.

Hey Mika, you’ve been killing it with these launch articles!

It really doesn’t have anything to do with loving space. It has to do with willingness to support space science and research with public funds, even when the return on investment isn’t always tangible or clear.

Meh. Our political system is our political system, and that isn’t going to change anytime soon, so I don’t play devil’s advocate when it comes to the political parties. The Dems are immeasurably better than the Repubs on issues pertaining to public support for NASA and science in general. Neither group is perfect, but…

Aw, I’m sorry if you find the truth annoying, Rocketman. :( I do too. The truth is that the money may have come from citizens of both parties, but it came from only one of them reluctantly. One truly wants to support NASA and publicly funded space exploration, and the other can’t wait to hand it over to corporations.…

They scienced the shit out of that landing.

I noticed something was off when they asked if I wanted P. coli de Gallo.

NASA’s most bad-ass moment of all time, IMO. This made me feel like we’re living in a sci-fi movie.

Typical righty revisionism. And I suppose you think Bush was a good president now, right?

You lost me at “Bush was almost as bad.”

HA! HAHAHAHA! Dude, that was funny. You keep tellin’ yourself that. ;)

Riiiight. Guaranteed by kachowski on gizmodo, lol. Textbooks teach history based on stock market charts, job creation and wars. Deep down inside you know it’s true. Bush will always be remembered for bungling the response to 9/11, Iraq, water boarding, failing to get bin Laden and for leaving office with the economy…

Thanks, GOP Congress since Jan. 2011.

And Bush ignored hundreds of laws he didn’t like — literally hundreds — and only got away with it because he hid behind the flag and patriotism. Obama is a boy scout by comparison and will be remembered as such. Must suck for people like you. :(