flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch — Wait But Why

waitbutwhy.com · 1,751 words · saved by 1 readers

So heavy but so worth it

This post was originally published in The Free Press on October 14, 2024. Last night, I received two texts from Bari Weiss: Any interest in writing a short piece about that jaw-dropping launch? And why you brought your daughter to see it? The first question is an easy one. I’ve been fascinated by space ever since I gained sentience sometime in the mid-1980s. I had the order of the planets down by age four, and a few years later I could (and did) tell people that you could fit a thousand Earths inside Jupiter and a thousand Jupiters inside the sun. I remember being amazed watching videos of the

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading