There are now FIVE humans in space.
That is still not a number to get excited about, but it was terrific to watch yesterday’s successful launch of the Crew Dragon Demo-2. Everything was a go, including the weather.
There were cameras everywhere, probably in case something went wrong, but it meant that the average citizen, sitting at their computer, could see the whole shebang, from the inside of the capsule to the touch down of Falcon 9 onto “Of Course I Still Love You.”
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are arriving at the ISS around 7:29 a.m. PDT today. Depending on when you read this blog, they may have already docked. Excellent!!!
With the success of Demo-2, SpaceX plans to send more people to space. Ordinary people, like you and me, and Tom Cruise. Really, the guy who likes to do his own stunts wants to film a movie in the ISS. If it gets us closer to Mars, I say do it.
To quote Mary Roach at the end of Packing for Mars, “Let’s go out and play.”
