Government should fail more Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Until last week, SpaceX's Starship launches were an opportunity for my baby daughter to sit with me and practice one of her new words: "Boom!" We watched three rockets lift off, rise to 10 kilometers, and then perform the "belly-flop" maneuver intended to bring them safely back to earth. Three times we watched them fall in an enormous, flaming "Boom!" I know the baby won't remember these launches, but I want to be able to tell her we shared them. The Starship vehicle is the first fully reusable rocketâit could lower the cost of going to space to the price of fuel. It's the difference between needing a new car for every trip to the grocery store and simply refueling between trips. On May 5, we finally watched Starship stick its landing.