Robert Heinlein, in the story ‘The Man who sold the Moon’ , predicted the forming of a private company which built a rocket to go to the Moon, and enabled the formation of a colony there – in 1950. I didn’t read it until much later – my first Heinlein story was ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’, set on the moon colony.
In August 2020, the Dragon spacecraft built by Space X successfully returned two astronauts from the Space Station to a splashdown landing in the Gulf of Mexico. Images which follow are screen captures from the NASA livestreams.
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