onward and upward

On the last page of the B section of this morning's newspaper is a story slugged "Millionaire's rocket has successful first flight." There are five column inches describing how the test rocket for SpaceX corporation successfully reached orbit.

The payload is a test version of Dragon, the company's proposed commercial spacecraft.

A spacecraft built by private enterprise reached permanent orbit. Shouldn't that be on the front page? BP's troubles are huge, but they're the death throes of an ind...