Gods, it feels good to see the future finally arrive. It's been a long time coming. Growing up in the 80s, I became quite bitter about the pace of technological change. Sure, personal computers were nifty , but the heroic age of spaceflight was really what the future should've been about. That age had ended with Apollo 17, three years before I was born. Everything since then looked like a shambolic shuffle into a new…
Addendum: well, crap. The future is still hard.
The key thing now is the reaction to a catastrophic failure. Can't let it grind everything to a halt.