T+148: Gerst to SpaceX, and Why Landing is Part of Mission Success

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 10:23 p.m.

Long-time head of human spaceflight at NASA, Bill Gerstenmaier, has joined SpaceX as a consultant, but everyone is excited for the wrong reasons. And SpaceX missed a booster landing on their most recent Starlink launch, which prompted a new round of debates over whether booster recovery is part of mission success or not.