Ok, that might be a bit of an overstatment. But there was big space news this weekend. SpaceX did manage to get the boosters to seperate successfully ( after 3 failed attempts) and will go down in the history books as the first private company to make it to space. It seems NASA has some compitition. Congrat to the SpaceX Team.
You can read more about it and check out some pix over at the Wired Blog. Now you know where all those paypal fees went…
Check out the video highlights below.
The next step will be for congress to contract with them to efficently double the cost of the space program. It worked for the millitary!
Ok, ok, that was cheap. err perhaps that was a poor choice of words…..