I admit, I've been enthralled with SpaceX's Demo 1 mission - launching the Dragon space capsule, dock with the ISS and safely reutrn it to earth. It's a prelude to sending astronauts to the space station from American soil for the first time since 2011.

If you didn't know, we been hitching rides for the past 8 years on Russian rockets for about $75 million/trip.

The Dragon space capsule safely splashed down yesterday morning and they are saying that real live astronauts will be launched sometime in May.

I wonder how long it will be till we establish a base on the mooon and then start sending people to Mars :-)

Would you go?