Elon Musk and SpaceX as a company should be proud, what an achievement, that was literally one of the coolest things I ever did see, in a way as a space geek I was always bummed I never got to live through the space race and the hype about going to the launches and everyone watching and being proud of what we (humanity) were achieving... and now I watch that... and the side booster landing in sync... fucking so cool!
Fair play to Elon, the guy is cool and he does things differently, the affordability of this compared to the official government launches is night and day too!
In a way its sad for me that it should governments aren't putting enough cash into the next frontier... or at least not challenging their companies enough... for example if BFR works, the diameter of the rocket and that is what, 9M? Maybe they will push to 10M? Compared to the 3.5M that has always been used which is why sattelites have to be packed so tightly and in origami like fashion, why had no one else challenged that design until now? Was it cause too expensive to rebuild the pads and funding gets cut every year, the whole reusability of things and the landing styles instead of parachutes etc... it's weird it's taken an individual/individual company to put this out there for me, governments have far more people at their disposal (NASA as example - Ł20B budget per year with 17000+ staff compared to SpaceX with with only 7000 staff but not sure on spending)
Either way, glad the private sector is getting involved and to a serious level, everyone said he wasn't gonna be able to do many things, but here he is, with his people, getting it done.
Shame about the Central Core but it can happen.