The Falcon Heavy backlash and the public trust

The Falcon Heavy backlash and the public trust

6 years ago
Anonymous $v9r5mEH86V

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/11/space-coast-from-ghost-to-ghost/

I watched the Falcon Heavy launch this week. Not as an accredited journalist, from an observation tower, but as one of the masses on Alan Shepard Beach twelve miles south. Watched it arc across the sky; watched the two boosters return safely to the landing pads like a video game; heard the sonic booms. And then, over the next few days, I watched the opprobrium rain down:

the clearest sign that we are in a new Gilded Age might be the nation gushing over a union-busting billionaire's launch of his quarter-million-dollar sportscar into space on his own private rockets while everyone ignores reports of his factory workers suffering egregious injuries