As Bob had pointed out many times, they really had a knack for sucking all the momentum right out of existence.

Let’s gooooo!

Sincere thanks for wading through the social media muck so the rest of us don’t have to. I occasionally subject myself to the first dozen or so comments on stories at Ars Technica just as a pollution monitoring exercise one might say. I think I’d need to don some PPE before going dumpster-diving at Reddit or Bluesky.

The squirmy things under those particular rocks had best brace themselves for more – by their standards – bad news. The FAA also bumped up SpaceX’s annual Falcon launch allowance at Vandy’s SLC-4E from 36 to 50. There are other bureaucratic processes underway that should soon allow SpaceX another 50 annual Vandy Falcon launches from the rework-in-progress SLC-6 and up to 120 from SLC-40 at Canaveral. There are also Starship-centric enviro-bureaucratic processes well underway anent Starship launches from LC-39A at KSC and either or both the ex-ULA SLC-37 and the notional new-construction SLC-50 at Canaveral. Starlink continues its relentless march through more and more markets too as do Tesla and Elon’s other enterprises.

We’re burnin’ daylight here, boys! The Mars conjunction waits for no man!