Don't Panic, The mankind has just started!

Starman in the Orbit

They gave us a spaceman riding in the first space car listening to a new space anthem and all this while giving the mankind a taste of the sci-fi in real life.

Elon Musk and the team launched the most powerful operational rocket with flying colours. Perfect liftoff, followed by the separation of the boosters which landed simultaneously giving goosebumps to half the world. The main core separated. The second stage burned thrice. Starman is finally on way to the asteroid belt on the glorified 'Billion-year Mars Trajectory'. All was well. No one will say that the hiccup of the landing of the main core made the mission a failure.

Boosters Landing

Though this may not be the best rocket as compared to the Saturn V. This is "reusable". All the three engines are to be recovered out of which 2 successfully done in the first flight. On top of it, 27 engines burned "together" as a family for more than 150 seconds without any glitches. Making it a marvel. The third burn of the second stage exceeded the trans-mars orbit. All these are the technological wonders accomplished in a single flight.

LIFT-OFF

For the 21st century generation, this can be the event we'll compare to the Apollo 11. The iconic launch pad (Kennedy LC-39A) was prepared and used once again. Half of the world had their hearts stopped once again. We manoeuvred and docked in lunar orbit. We separated and landed two engines side by side. We saw a human on Moon. We saw a car orbit the earth. We saw the space event of the century... so far.

Let's not get too ahead of ourselves. The Space Race of this century has just started. With the numerous plans to go to Moon then Mars. Exploring the Jupiter and Saturn System. We'll journey the solar system a lot more. For the time being just "DON'T PANIC".

DON'T PANIC

Images Courtesy: SpaceX

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