Lift-off as rocket energy powers Musk

Americans love a good rocket. Probably hard not to when they’re right there in the first verse of The Star-Spangled Banner: “And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ...”

Of course, that the rockets in question were being fired by the hated British on the US defenders of Fort McHenry in the war of 1812 doesn’t matter — it’s the wonderful thrusting energy that counts...

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