Elon Musk’s SpaceX company launched a secret spy satellite this morning, so the usual bright and bouncy SpaceX online coverage was absent today with one exception: the still-fascinating return of the first-stage rocket.
As we’ve noted previously, someday this will be generally ignored, as the space program was once it became routine. Today is not that day, however.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
Bob Collins