Out of the box

The Falcon has landed

Finally the future looks exciting again

In an epic launch on 21st December 2015, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX blasted a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket into space, the upper stage released eleven satellites into orbit. The first stage returned back to Earth in an absolutely amazing night landing. It was a significant step forward in mankind becoming multi-planetary. This is Musk’s goal, and one that is truly inspiring.

Mankind and possibly all life on Earth is a risk from many multi-species eradicating events – from satellite collision, viruses, global warming, nuclear war to volcanic disaster. It’s a low risk but as far as we know humans are the only intelligent life in the universe, in fact the only life is on Earth. We should be working hard to preserve the unique treasure that is life. A universe without life would be a dull universe indeed.

Musk wants to get us to Mars in less than a decade, faster than Nasa plans by a long way. He wants to do it commercially charging $500k per person per ticket, he thinks people will pay and I think they will too.

Mars missions would be mankind’s greatest adventure, more exciting by a long way than the Moon landings. With so many challenges facing mankind, we all need to feel that the future will be better than today. Elon Musk is working hard to make it so. I hope I live to see the SpaceX Mars landings.

Andrew Lewis

Andrew Lewis is an ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 10,000 hours and 15 years of experience in coaching hundreds of ADHD executives, business professionals and creatives, and previously running a large ADHD support group and an ADHD diagnostic clinic. His business expertise comes from a twenty years career in software, from programming, through marketing, sales and running a few start-ups. His ADHD insight is personal, with decades understanding his own ADHD experience and in bringing up his ADHD daughter. He has published his writing primarily via this website, with interactive ADHD courses in development.