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Whew. Congratulations to SpaceX and NASA! Let this be the first of many, many successes!
As for the celebration thing, I remember reading somewhere (maybe in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff) about an Air Force officer watching the celebration at Houston when a mission spashed down successfully. He was horrified. To him, the whooping and hollering meant that these guys were actually surprised it worked. After all, the control tower doesn't have a party every time a plane lands....
As for the celebration thing, I remember reading somewhere (maybe in Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff) about an Air Force officer watching the celebration at Houston when a mission spashed down successfully. He was horrified. To him, the whooping and hollering meant that these guys were actually surprised it worked. After all, the control tower doesn't have a party every time a plane lands....