The year when it all became real
2017 may be the year when it all became real. When you look at the history of SpaceX's Falcon 9 flights you see that 2017 is a landmark year: the first no-failues year. When I Watch one of those videos of a launch and landing of a falcon 9 - I always remember those old science fiction movies. In front of our eyes a science fiction vision is forming into reality. That vision, thanks to visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk is much broader than just efficiently operating current (and rather un-ambitions, in science fiction terms, space programs). Musk is seriously talking about the making of humanity into a space-crossing civilization. Check out his recent update of the Mars program: It may take a hundreds of years to actually establish truly independent, self-supporting human settlements on Mars. It might take more. Think how long it took the American colonies to progress from that first Mayflower voyage to the Declaration of Independence (and the later historical m