[kingu]

I do have to really credit SpaceX for turning the incredible into the mundane. Rockets landing on tails of fire, hitting a tiny tiny target in the middle of the sea. Now repeatedly.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I do have to really credit SpaceX for turning the incredible into the mundane."

Well, that "is" kind of the point..... :^)

[CurlyDave]

I do have to really credit SpaceX for turning the incredible into the mundane. Rockets landing on tails of fire, hitting a tiny tiny target in the middle of the sea. Now repeatedly.

I keep wondering about what this will do for the cost of insurance for space launches.

Almost all launches have insurance, but if the specific rocket being used has been "proven" by previous launches it might bring the risk down substantially.

[pfflier]

That was the problem NASA had with both the Apollo program and the space shuttle. They became so routine that, with the exceptions of disasters or near disasters, the public just yawned. Ultimately it led to cuts in Apollo missions.

I'm not so sure it led to the demise of the shuttle program. That look more political and left us without any means to get to our own people on a foreigner's space station.

What kind of idiot would do that?...never mind.