Things I Wrote Down

Things I Wrote Down

Pick an impossible

You may not launch a rocket to Mars, but there's some gravity you need to defy

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Andrew Kooman
Oct 17, 2024
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Last week Elon Musk’s SpaceX team launched a rocket, the largest and heaviest object ever made, and plucked it out of the air.

The flying object left earth’s atmosphere and returned to earth and the launch site, where robotic arms caught the Super Heavy rocket booster and re-stacked it on the catch tower.

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