Cool News

With all the negativity and yuckiness of the news I came across this article in Popular Science. Go read it. It shows some really neat stuff. I won't repeat it all here, but there are a few that I am particularly excited about.

1. Supersonic business jet: Supersonic travel has been lost since the Concorde was retired. Seeing it become a thing again is great.
2. The Juno mission: We will actually learn a good deal about the internal structure of Jupiter. It has been so mysterious I am really excited to learn more.
3. The SPIDER thing: The SPIDER is not that exciting by itself, but the airships that Lockheed Martin is building are sweeeeet. I love the idea of airships and this may be the beginning of a modern renaissance of the platform.
4. Most important: SpaceX's landing first stage. The cost of rockets is only 3% fuel. The other 97% of the cost is the hardware. So being able to reuse the hardware with minimal rework means that the cost of space access could begin to meaningfully drop. This is the biggest news in the article. I'm really excited about the potential of this development. This could truly usher in the space age.