Still, SpaceX stuck the landing the last time under similar conditions. And now in its quest to launch and recover rockets so that they may be used again, SpaceX is acquiring quite a collection of previously used booster stages.

Let's go halves on this big watermelon.

He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate.

[…]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.