Elon Musk’s privately-funded SpaceX made history yesterday by being the first group to successfully land a rocket on a platform out at sea. This is not an easy thing to do (the first four tries failed). In the footage you can see whitecaps, so this was even more challenging than it might have been.
The Verge has a story on this (here). Currently on their front page they have, in fact, 15 stories about SpaceX. Some of these are different angles on the rocket landing (reader discussion, photo galleries and so on) but still…15 stories on the main page. Some sites don’t even have 15 stories total. It seems a little crazy. Maybe this is just the way The Verge rolls, though. I am pretty unhip so it’s quite possible I am out of the (hyper)loop.
