They’ve relaunched a test vehicle. SpaceX is putting payloads into orbit for paying customers. That’s two totally different risk factor calculations going on. One that requires significantly more analysis on the used rocket. It’s a great achievement, but it’s still just a test vehicle.

And all that says is that you’re ready to go qualify on a ship. All that qualifying to get to a ship and do more qualifying with little or no sleep.

HI-SEAS is the project name. Technical facts are that the automation is controlled by a Mac and they use ControlByWeb gear to interface with things. They are in the middle of nowhere so it’s a very long walk, around 12 hours, to get to civilization. There are servers that delay their email and web the appropriate…