[indescions_2018]

$TSLA will sell a lot of cars this year, irrevocably altering the EV game. Price target $350 by Jan 2019.

But it pales in comparison to the watershed moment SpaceX and the entire spaceflight community will have. There is a real possibility for 28 launches, including two Falcon Heavy's. NASA TESS on track to discover an explosion in habitable zone exoplanets. Vector, Electron, TechShot and other private space data leading a push for commercial apps in space, including pharma, stem cells and materials foundries. And there is decent chance of someone landing on the moon for the first time in 45 years ;)

Will we Go Back to the Moon in 2018?

https://audioboom.com/posts/6573043-dec-29-2017-will-we-go-b...

69TH International Astronautical Congress Bremen 1-5 OCT 2018

https://www.iac2018.org/

[reaperducer]

> NASA TESS on track to discover an explosion in habitable zone exoplanets.

Not a factor. Until we can travel many multiples faster than light, it doesn't matter how many things we can see far, far away.

You and I will both be centuries dead before that happens.

[arcticfox]

> it doesn't matter how many things we can see far, far away.

Why does it "not matter" since we can't land on them in our lifetimes? It's still interesting.

[cornholio]

The GP meant to say "it doesn't matter for SpaceX that we find new planets, since no rocket company will send anything there in the forseeable future". The GGP was pointing out that TESS itself is launched by SpaceX.