Symbolic of todays stock market

I could watch that all day.. Truth is I probably will.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts &amp; then attempt final burn for Mars.</p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960988527159795712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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OK, a large part of my staff are now fans. I was presenting when this happened, so we took a break..

Wow, that's cool...

And the Tesla is Chiefs red folks!!

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">View from SpaceX Launch Control. Apparently, there is a car in orbit around Earth. <a href="https://t.co/QljN2VnL1O">pic.twitter.com/QljN2VnL1O</a></p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/960992715579125760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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They've got a live stream going of "starman" now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBr2kKAHN6M

There's a copy of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in the glove compartment.

Do spaceships follow the same salvage laws as nautical ships? If I salvage the Tesla, can I keep it?

Yes, but you have to grab it while it's over Russia...

Simply incredible. Why haven't we always had boosters simply return?

We needed a billionaire crazy enough to invest in it.

It seems like there's a tradeoff involved. To get them back, you have to lift some weight for the fuel and structures to land them. I wonder if some technology changed to make recovery the better cost option over disposal.

Also, I suspect that it took a different player in the market to think differently. We've always made them one-time pieces of equipment and there may not have been incentive to think differently up till now.

Good point.

I think I'll remember watching this for the rest of my life.

https://i.imgur.com/WPLXYXC.png