Google earth also has this facility. You can slide the date over and see how an area has changed over time.
Check out the historical filters.
(And for those in large parts of the SW, free access to OS planning maps.)
SN10 landing upright. I am ecstatic! That was amazing. 
#awkwardâŚ
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A landing and a RUD all in one day. Couldnât ask for anything more 
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I was literally about to turn my computer off but still had the stream open on another monitor. Glad I didnât miss the boom!
I think itâs amazing what they are able to do.
Return boosters back to a launch pad.
Each time getting more experience and knowledge, before making the next leap.
I think space is really going to open up, and we will watch people land back on the moon in my lifetime, and maybe to Mars.
If anything it shows how good the shuttle was. Keeping it simple.
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I think this is a key thing - in modern times, a big government project goes BOOM, the decision makers and bean counters become more risk averse and wary of public perception, but a privately funded venture can more easily sell or stomach the premise of âlook at all this data we got, we got all this good stuff and we know what went wrong, letâs go againâ (provided the BOOM doesnât take out part of Manhattan and/or hundreds of people).
Of course, weâve only very recently seen a big and expensive government project fail and quickly be forgotten, soâŚ
The shuttle was massively more complex than a normal âfixedâ rocket launch.
The thing space x have added is the upright auto land. That is very impressive. But from a rocket motor and mission perspective itâs only a small part more.
The shuttle was a very complex launch vehicle, utilising solid and liquid fuels, multi-stage flight separation upto orbit insertion.
Reentry, essentially âflownâ by computer, rather than capsule type free fall reentry.
Note that more complex doesnt mean better.
Space x have simplified, so many of the normal aspects of the pre- flight and flight profile.
The shuttle was a magnitude riskier as well.
Just on the basis of the SRBs. Solid rocket motors once âlitâ canât be stopped.
Itâs a hard âgoâ point in the checklist.
The main orbiters motors were ignited at about T-6 seconds and could if a failure was detected be cut off right until T-0 when the SRBs were lit.
From that point the launch vehicle was committed to assent until SRB cut off at approx 2 min. No abort in this phase of flight was possible.
After this there were a few options⌠this is also the order they appear in, but not the preffered order.
Return to launch site RTLS
Transocesnic abort landing TAL
Abort once around AOA
abort to orbit ATO
ATO was always preffered, and if I remember correctly was used once, with mission continued normally after, but in a slightly lower orbit.
Take all of that vs a fixed multi stage rocket launchâŚ
Launch abort⌠leads to capsule escape system activating pulling the capsule free from the launch vehicle.
I loved the shuttle.
But it is definitely more complex. In build, in mission profile and in operation.
Hope space x gets a shifty on so I can spend my kids inheritance on an orbit or 5. 
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What makes me happy.
Space and space things.
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There has been a nice little dip in the Stock Price for Virgin Galactic 
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What do you mean âbackâ?
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Yeah⌠not impressed.
Bought some pre dip.
Not convinced they landed in the first place?
All I meant by simple, was the landing as if a plane.
It wasnt an attack.
Just space talk.
Wooooooooo space.
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My old boss wasnât convinced. He got very cross whenever we talked about it at work. He was also a strong believer that 9/11 was an inside job masterminded by Bush, that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were genuine, Obama was born in Kenya and adopted by an American mother, and that Corbyn was a centrist. He retired from the civil service recently as a Director (SCS 2* grade). Not that thatâs worrying.
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I didnât take it as such
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